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==Baltimore==

==Baltimore==

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>  Social media analysts discovered links between the Baltimore and Ferguson violence; between 20 and 50 social media accounts active in Baltimore were also used in Ferguson at the peak of violence in late Summer 2014, suggesting the presence of professional organizers.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3059840/Anarchists-year-s-violence-Ferguson-active-Baltimore-claim-social-media-experts.html </ref>

The Ferguson 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>  Social media analysts discovered links between the Baltimore and Ferguson violence; between 20 and 50 social media accounts active in Baltimore were also used in Ferguson at the peak of violence in late Summer 2014, suggesting the presence of professional organizers.<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3059840/Anarchists-year-s-violence-Ferguson-active-Baltimore-claim-social-media-experts.html </ref>

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