
Originally Posted by
MrSplitshot
Because the Presidential election has become some kind of Hollywood, wow-factor, reality TV, popularity contest. It has very little to do with qualifications for the job, and more to do with popularity and who can raise the most cash...which is pretty sad. Obama was the X-Factor candidate, smooth talker, and appealed to the right amount of the population to get elected. Economy was in the crapper, Iraq/Afghanistan, and people wanted change, change, change...well, they got it!
(Oh, and it had nothing to do with him being black. Nothing at all.)