What elected the socialist community organizer from south side of Chicago, was white guilt. Those whites were tired of being called racist, and thought electing the mulatto from Hawaii would stop all that. Wrong!
i remember my mom and sister back in the day saying they were going to vote 0bama “to prove i am not a racist”, to which I replied if you are just voting for the man because of the color of his skin then you ARE a racist...
maybe in the end it was just that McShame was a pretty tough sell. Lord knows i bit my tongue but pulled the lever for Palin.