Obama won pretty convincingly on "no red America and blue America, only United States of America". Winning campaign message even if his actual governance was still highly partisan (intransigent Republican congress forced the issue).
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Replying to @danlistensto @Aelkus
I don’t think Obama won on the strength of that loftier message. He won because the fact of his being black represented a true Apollo-like growth opp for the nation to rally behind. “Let’s put a man on the moon/black man in the Oval Office.” GWB shitshow incumbency legacy helped.
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Strongly disagree. If Obama had run with rhetoric mirroring other black political leaders (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, or more contemporary like the BLM people, etc.) he would have been crushed at the polls. His lofty rhetoric was 100% necessary.
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