--Will (can?) the authoritarians (most of them white), form the powerful attachment to Obama that their psychology seems to need? What happens to American politics if they do not?
Giant loose cannon.

--Will the traditionalists (not all of them conservatives ) accept Obama at the head of the party of their mom and dad, their grandpartents, or at the head of the nation?

--Will all of them suddenly see "scary brown people" as humans too-- altering centuries of deeply ingrained  defense mechanisms--you know, the sort of mental tricks that have always made it easy for most people to wear sneakers made by enslaved and abused 12-year-olds,-- without an apparent qualm of conscience?

Remember Binkley's anxiety closet?

We have our guilt closet, and we are not about to open it, I think.
 

"There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.