Reply #7: And Donna Brazille astutely pointed out last year that black women would be the barometer.

[David Zephyr]

How savy is Donna Brazille? Very much, I say.

For black women alone can say they have lived in both of those worlds. No one can tell them anything. They are exactly what Donna Brazille says, the barometer. And I trust them. They can weigh their experiences, many of which you have given, along with much more and crystalize it down to a single choice.

And, as Brazille has pointed out, and as the polls have shown us over and over now, black women gravitated to Barack Obama in greater and greater percentages than they did to Hillary. Why was that?

I can not answer that question, but their careful and thoughtful voting shows that they found one candidate to be better than the other for their own reasons. That does not mean that they found one was bad and one was good. Not at all. But they did overwhelmingly choose one over the other. Why was that?

That must have been a very, very hard decision to make. I can't possibly grasp how thoughtful African-American women must have been, how seriously they made their decisions.

I dare say that it was black women who have the highest and brightest candle in this church.

And that talks to me a lot. A lot.