No McGovern

On Tuesday, June 16, I wrote of the Iranian protesters:

I've been wondering all along if the professionals and students who support his opponent Mousavi aren't like the American kids who supported George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy "back in the day." That is, noisy and visible but very far from a majority.

The numbers of protesters on view in the streets of Tehran cause me to have second thoughts about that comment. McGovern never turned out numbers like those. I don't know about "a majority" but clearly there are many Iranians who oppose the incumbent.