RFK predicted this election outcome

On Meet the Press in 1968, Bobby Kennedy predicted that someone like Obama would emerge.

"Despite what is going on in the country, particularly in Alabama, things are moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years," he declared. He thought such an eventuality inevitable, just as the election of his brother, a Roman Catholic, had been inevitable.

"In the next 40 years," he went on, "a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has...prejudice exists and probably will continue to...but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo."

His prescient words can be found in Excerpts in Rights for Americans: The Speeches of Robert F. Kennedy.