From Politico:
Obama reeling from gut punch of Trump win - POLITICO
This statement from a liberal writer says it all...
"A reality has slipped through their fingers. Four more years of a Democrat in the White House would make much of how Obama reshaped the government irreversible. A woman following a black man would drive home how there was no turning back to the old ways. Filling that Supreme Court seat would cement it for a generation."
Maybe more folks realized this than I previously thought.