Jim Antle @jimantle
Definitely was my view. Colin Powell had a shot over 20 years before Obama. Didn't run. Cain/Steele/Blackwell/Swann never won the offices they needed to be plausible WH candidates. Watts left Congress. More black Dems started winning statewide. — PolitiTweet.org
Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin
Kind of lost to history now, but “The first black president will be Republican” was a not uncommon pre-Obama hot ta… https://t.co/jhABxQmlcz