[lbo-talk] 'Terrorist!' 'Communist!' 'Socialist!'

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Thu Oct 30 16:24:20 PDT 2008


http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/mccain-miami-rally-getting-ugly-down.html

The people at 538, the wonky poll watching sight Matt recommended, reported on a near-attack on Obama supported in Limpdick:

<quote> After the rally, we witnessed a near-street riot involving the exiting McCain crowd and two Cuban-American Obama supporters. Tony Garcia, 63, and Raul Sorando, 31, were suddenly surrounded by an angry mob. There is a moment in a crowd when something goes from mere yelling to a feeling of danger, and that's what we witnessed. As photographers and police raced to the scene, the crowd elevated from stable to fast-moving scrum, and the two men were surrounded on all sides as we raced to the circle.

The event maybe lasted a minute, two at the most, before police competently managed to hustle the two away from the scene and out of the danger zone. Only FiveThirtyEight tracked the two men down for comment, a quarter mile down the street.

"People were screaming 'Terrorist!' 'Communist!' 'Socialist!'" Sorando said when we caught up with him. "I had a guy tell me he was gonna kill me."

Asked what had precipitated the event, "We were just chanting 'Obama!' and holding our signs. That was it. And the crowd suddenly got crazy." </quote>



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