Mainly, they vowed to vote again, even if those votes hadn't been counted the last time. Sure, the new president was Topic Number One. The fight involved the leadership of the Democratic National Committee. But congresswoman Waters, one of many critics who saw McAuliffe as more concerned with money than politics, helped former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson mount a last-minute campaign. I talked about the audacity of someone like Terry McAuliffe who would walk in and say no matter what you do, I've got you.
Some black voters feel that's the way they're treated by the party at large.
Getting in the back room, cutting its little deals, and blacks just going along. The debate over leadership went well into the morning. In the end, McAuliffe won the party's top slot. That is over. The question of Jackson vs. McAuliffe isn't a question of black vs. white, or even centrist vs. liberal.