Sabato’s Crystal Ball’s Larry J. Sabato says, WHAT AN ELECTION!
Two tickets full of history, one headed by the first African-American in position to become president, the other with a woman situated to become the nation’s first female vice president. Could it be that, in this increasingly diverse nation, we have seen the last of the all-white male party offerings that have characterized every presidential election in American history until 2008? The Crystal Ball bets so. With whites slated to become the minority in the United States by 2042, and with women increasingly being elected to the key stepping-stone offices of governor and senator, the transition to the future has begun. What is historic today will seem normal by mid-century….