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Carville, who served as a senior political adviser to former President Bill Clinton, said that many Democrats would be very angry if Obama loses. He noted that many Democrats were upset by Sen. John Kerry?s (D-Mass.) loss to President Bush in the 2004 election, when some Democrats made allegations of vote manipulation in Ohio, the state that ultimately decided the race.
Experts estimated that thousands of voters did not vote in Ohio because of poor preparation and long lines.
Carville said Democratic anger in 2004 ?would be very small to what would happen in 2008? if the same problems arose.
Carville said earlier this month that ?it would be very, very, very dramatic out there? if Obama lost, a statement some commentators interpreted as predicting riots. In an interview Tuesday, however, Carville said he did not explicitly predict rioting.
?A lot of Democrats would have a great deal of angst and anger,? said Carville, who predicted that on Election Day ?the voting system all around the country is going to be very stressed because there?s going to be enormous turnout.?
Other commentators have made such bold predictions.
?If [Obama] is elected, like with sports championships, people may go out and riot,? said Bob Parks, an online columnist and black Republican candidate for state representative in Massachusetts. ?If Barack Obama loses there will be another large group of people who will assume the election was stolen from him?.. This will be an opportunity for people who want to commit mischief.?
Speculation about Election-Day violence has spread on the Internet, especially on right-wing websites.
This has caught the attention of police departments in cities such as Cincinnati, which saw race riots in 2001 after police shot a young black man.
?We?ve seen it on the Internet and we?ve heard that there could be civil unrest depending on the outcome of [the election,]? said Lt. Mark Briede of the Cincinnati Police Department. ?We are prepared to respond in the case of some sort of unrest or some sort of incident.?
Briede, like other police officials interviewed, declined to elaborate on plans for Election Day. Many police departments have policies prohibiting public discussion of security plans.
James Tate, second deputy chief of Detroit?s police department, said extra manpower would be assigned to duty on Election Night. He said problems could flare whichever candidate wins.
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