crossposted from Daily Kos
On Saturday, part of my regular activity is to read two noteworthy columnists, Bob Herbert of the New York Times, and Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe. Both are Black, so it is not at all surprising that the columns of both are about the Obama phenomenon. Both are interesting reading. Herbert’s The Obama Phenomenon begins simply enough
The historians can put aside their reference material. This is new. America has never seen anything like the Barack Obama phenomenon.
. Jackson, in his A night for the newcomers saw
An array of trump cards dropped like hammers in this part of eastern Iowa as a three-way dead heat in the polls became an 8-point Obama victory over Edwards and Clinton.
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So what is happening?