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[Ya-ta Boy]

Yahoo has this:
Obama runs away with SC primary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/south_carolina_primary

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially-charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates...

About half the voters were black, according to polling place interviews, and four out of five of them supported Obama. Black women turned out in particularly large numbers. Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, got a quarter of the white vote while Clinton and Edwards split the rest.

The first fragmentary returns showed Obama with 57 percent of the vote, Clinton gaining 29 percent and Edwards at 13 percent.

Clinton seeks to smooth relations with Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton said he might have gone too far in attacking Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton said on Friday, adding that both Democratic presidential campaigns should focus on issues.

"He said several times yesterday that maybe he got a little bit carried away," Hillary Clinton said on CBS' "Early Show."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080125/pl_nm/usa_politics_clinton_dc

Strong black vote helps Obama in SC
WASHINGTON - Landslide margins among black voters fueled Barack Obama to his win Saturday in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, allowing him to overcome the edge that Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards had among whites.

As expected, blacks made up half the voters in Saturday's contest, by far the biggest share in any presidential contest so far this year. As in Nevada's Democratic contest last weekend, Obama won about eight in 10 of their votes, with black men and women supporting the Illinois senator by about that same margin, according to preliminary results from exit polls of Democratic voters conducted Saturday for The Associated Press and the networks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080127/ap_on_el_pr/primary_exit_poll

[Beeyee]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I don't think it's surprise that Obama carries nearly all the black vote. That's a given in the first viable race by a black. What we need to know is the percentage of white votes Obama carried. Does he have traction with enough whites to carry Southern states. Kuros says he does in Kentucky. What about the rest of the South?

Anyway, well done, Barack!


Added:
I wrote the above before I saw Beeyee's post. The most interesting comment I've read/heard about this was right after the Iowa caucus a couple of weeks ago. Some blacks had been supporting Clinton until Obama did so well in Iowa because they didn't think he had a chance to draw white support, but then those 'crackers' up in 94%-white Iowa showed otherwise.

With the massive support in South Carolina, it will be interesting to see how Obama handles the MLK quote about judging a person by the content of his character and not the color of his skin.

[Pluto]

He got 25% of the white vote. Hillary and Edwards split the rest. An Obama White House is very likely and so is a Clinton one. Obama has been running a spirited and successful campaign though it is really to soon to call.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Tiger Beer]

It's good to see Obama back in the race.

[agentX]

I was disappointed with Edwards' results. I was really hoping he would come in second.
He made a lot of good points in the debate and against Bill O'Retard.
I don't think he's quitting, but this hurts him a lot.

[On the other hand]

MSNBC rounds up the demographics...