Obama got the nomination because blacks who comprise 30 percent of the Democrat Party gave all of their votes to Obama, while whites spread them over several candidates.
Any Democrat would have beaten the Republicans in 2008, thanks to Bush’s economic and war issues.
Don't forget the key roles that two power-brokers played in bringing Obama to the White House.
Vernon Jordan introduced him and "walked him around" Clintonista circles in the months after George W. Bush was inaugurated.
Tom Daschle crafted, or should I say "stage-managed", Obama's overall presidential campaign.
You remember Tom Daschle -- the guy who thought up the 1995 government shutdown that crippled the GOP and eventually sent Newt into exile, only three years later, and four years after our congressional triumph in an issues-driven by-election. Daschle did that.
Daschle also filched control of the Senate in 2001, by the expedient of traducing Republican Sen. Jeffords and getting him to cross the aisle. Bush had to wait until he got back control of the Senate in 2003 before he could do much of anything -- but Daschle bought the 'Rats almost two years to organize their opposition to the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars on Terror.