Commentators also pointed that there are more young people and women voting for the party in 2012.
Several commentators have pointed to parallels between the song's story and Dylan's own experiences around the time he wrote the song.
Commentators point not just to its crime-story plot, but to its rap soundtrack.
Many commentators point the finger at BP and the United States government.
Similarly, many commentators pointed to the strong opposition of church groups as a reason for the failure of the 1988 Rights and Freedoms referendum.
Commentators have pointed to pronouncements during this period by Young and Grant which would seem to give vigilante-style bloodshed a religious basis.
Other commentators have pointed to the Sunni Awakening (which started in 2005) as the most important reason for the decline in Iraqi violence.
Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".
Most commentators who have used it in speeches or books point to it as Mikkelson does, "a lesson in the unimportance of self-importance".
As Japan struggles to assess what went wrong with these serious, smart young people, many scholars and commentators are pointing their fingers in an unusual direction: the schools.