The fact that Obama beat Hillary to be the Democratic nominee changed everything. I jnew he was going to get a bigger portion of the Black vote. I felt he was going to get a bigger portion of the Hispanic and youth vote. My wife would get really miffed that I called it, “The Novelty Vote.” I would have called it the “Token” vote, but she is Black and her legs would have been crossed to this day. That is what it was, a “novelty” vote that had only McCain to counter it. It likely won’t be repeated.
I think we all know the motivation underlying the “Novelty vote” or the “Token vote.” With all due respect it would be just as descriptive and just as accurate to call it the “OJ vote” or the “Rodney King vote.” It is hardly confined to that election or to black people but it was a matter of putting self above country. That could really be said of virtually everyone who voted for 0ba-Mao.