Despite all the rhetorical flourishes about race in the campaign, the single most important factor may be that the desire for change has trumped the soothing reassurance of experience.

• 无论种族因素在竞选中被说得如何天花乱坠，人们对变革的渴望或许才是唯一重要的因素，它超过了一份让人信服的从政履历在选民心中的份量。