Stop and think of the history for a minute.

[Erc]

Anyone else mildly reminded of 1880 by all of this, with Clinton as Grant?

Scandal-prone President['s wife] comes back after an intervening administration to run again, has a great base of support that's enough to get them 45% at the convention, but not enough to win?

[The Obama - Garfield analogy is, understandably, less solid.  It would only be comparable if  the Democrats were nominating G.K. Butterfield].

[Erc]

This really is historic. This is the first time in the history of the western world that a non-white has had at least a 50-50 shot at being the leader of a western nation. The first time that a member of a race that was once enslaved and then discriminated against has a chance to lead a nation.

There have been black Governors-General of Canada....