A lot of the voters who actually gave him the win (if they did, presumably might have been due to cheating too) probably didn't, but most likely went with the idea that he could not be any worse than most of the other presidents you have had and hey, black, so why not, let's prove we are not racists, and make some history. It all sounded kind of nice, after all.

He was mostly a blank slate as far as the greater part of your voters were concerned, wasn't he? Had not been in MSM so much people could have build any definite image of him before his candidacy, the way they had of Hillary when she ran against Trump, so it was easier to paint him as either good or at least mostly harmless?