Experience means nothing to the voter otherwise oabama would not have been elected.
It obviously means nothing to dem voters. Repubs don’t have the media in their pocket and we tend to look at records rather than media hype.
And imo, O won because he ran as a black man and all the libs, dems, and white guilters ate that up. He was an “articulate” “light skinned” black man. It was a “historic” election. The Bush Admin did nothing to counteract the media throughout 8 years so we were screwed on all fronts.