President Obama’s historic election in 2008 and his reelection last year proved decisively that race is no longer an insurmountable hurdle to high political office in the United States.
But the current pool of possible candidates suggests that the next black president will not be taking the oath of office anytime soon.
“In the shadow of Barack Obama, there’s not been a lot of growth,” Cornell Belcher, a pollster who was involved in the president’s 2008 campaign, said. “It is really hard for minorities to get elected at the statewide level, and before you start talking about president, frankly, you have to get elected to statewide office.”
Tucker Carlson, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Caller and Fox News contributor Kevin Kookogey, founder of Linchpins of Liberty Bill O'Reilly, political commentator, author, and host of The O'Reilly Factor
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