with David Gregory, is crediting Al Roker and Gwen Ifill. Al Roker apparently has daughters. Cynthia Tucker (black female) of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is a guest with David Gergen, and she says it's all the diversity in the media now (like Roker and Ifill) that made the difference.

Obviously the self-serving Jayson Blair was no help!

So it's not the blackness or the reproductive anatomy. It's gotta be the life and cultural experiences and the understanding, the perspectives, that arise from all that formative positioning. . .
(which is why Obama doesn;t appeal to me as bringing a new perspective, we've HAD privileged class Ivy elite lawyers to death, and then some, in the presidency.)