| − | The Fergusen Riots failed to muster African-American voters to the polls in the [[2014 Midterm Elections]] to retake the U.S [[House of Representatives]] or keep the [[U.S. Senate]] from going Republican, as [[Democratic Party]] strategists (such as Donna Brazile) had hoped.<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/online/donna-brazile-hypes-midterm-voter-turnout-with-ferguson-hashtag/ </ref><ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Voices/2014/0904/Playing-politics-with-Ferguson-Will-it-work-for-Democrats-in-midterms </ref><refhttp://news.yahoo.com/obama-triangulates-ferguson-crisis-midterm-231620731.html </ref> Yet in many ways the 2015 Baltimore Riots were a spinoff of the anger engendered in Fergusen. ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported President Obama met the day after the midterms with Fergusen protest leaders and expressed concern, in the words of [[Al Sharpton]], that the movement and its objectives "stay on course".<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-met-with-ferguson-activists-concerned-protests-stay-on-course </ref> | + | The Fergusen Riots failed to muster African-American voters to the polls in the [[2014 Midterm Elections]] to retake the U.S [[House of Representatives]] or keep the [[U.S. Senate]] from going Republican, as [[Democratic Party]] strategists (such as Donna Brazile) had hoped.<ref>http://www.mediaite.com/online/donna-brazile-hypes-midterm-voter-turnout-with-ferguson-hashtag/ </ref><ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Politics-Voices/2014/0904/Playing-politics-with-Ferguson-Will-it-work-for-Democrats-in-midterms </ref><ref>http://news.yahoo.com/obama-triangulates-ferguson-crisis-midterm-231620731.html </ref> Yet in many ways the 2015 Baltimore Riots were a spinoff of the anger engendered in Fergusen. ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported President Obama met the day after the midterms with Fergusen protest leaders and expressed concern, in the words of [[Al Sharpton]], that the movement and its objectives "stay on course".<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-met-with-ferguson-activists-concerned-protests-stay-on-course </ref> |