Howard Kurtz has a rundown of some envisioned scenarios in today's Post.
Columbia's Todd Gitlin: "I would not be surprised to see outbursts of political violence the likes of which we haven't seen since the Weather Underground of the 1970s."
Harvard's Elaine Kamarck, a former Clinton aide: "The beginning of the end of American greatness."
Blogger Kevin Drum: "One word: scandal."
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"Oh man," the New Yorker's Seymour Hersh said recently. "If he's reelected, we're really in trouble."
The New Yorker has broken with 80-years of tradition by endorsing a candidate for president for the first time, and it's not George W. Bush.
I've been thinking about this, "What if he wins?" question quite a bit lately, and I really don't know the answer... basically, I agree with Hersh; if he's reelected, we're in big trouble. How that trouble manifests itself, I don't know. It could be massive protests, protracted legal battles, a rapid widening of the already giant partisan gulf. Or it could just appear that everything's okay. People go back to their jobs and kind of shrug it off. I think I'm more afraid of that outcome.
