Well, when you put it that way....... Seriously, yes it matters. It mattered in 2008, too, but no one was listening. How someone with all that baggage was supported blindly by our press and received the votes of so many respected Americans is still a mystery to me.
It's simple how he did it and how he plans to do it again: take the quote below and sprinkle a generous amount of misplaced white guilt on it - whipped to a frenzy by the liberal media, et voila! The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville
And, speaking of misplaced white guilt, here's a very interesting perspective: http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/herman-cain-on-class-warfare-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/