Obama wins South Carolina

**Ironduke** · 01-26-2008, 21:56 PM

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Obama wins South Carolina

(CNN) -- Barack Obama will win the South Carolina Democratic primary by a substantial margin, CNN projects based on exit polls.

en. Hillary Clinton was expected to finish second, ahead of former Sen. John Edwards, according to CNN projections.

With 75 percent of precincts reporting, Obama had 54 percent of the vote. Clinton was second with 27 percent, followed by Edwards, with 19 percent.

Obama's likely victory capped a heated contest in South Carolina, the first Democratic primary in the South and the first with a largely African-American electorate.

Obama, who is hoping to become the United States' first African-American president, did well with black voters, who made up about half of Saturday's electorate, according to exit polls.

Black voters supported the Illinois senator by a margin of more than 4-to-1 over his nearest rival, exit polls indicate.

Among white voters, Obama took about a quarter of the vote, with Clinton and Edwards roughly splitting the remainder, those polls indicated.

Clinton issued a statement saying she called Obama to congratulate him.

"We now turn our attention to the millions of Americans who will make their voices heard in Florida and the 22 states as well as American Samoa who will vote on February 5," she said in the statement.

Clinton beat Obama only among elderly voters, according to the exit polls.

Among voters 65 and older, Clinton beat Obama 40 to 32 percent. But Obama handily defeated Clinton in every other bracket, and overall garnered 58 percent of the vote among 18 to 64-year-olds while 23 percent of those voters picked Clinton.

And half of those polled said both candidates shared blame for the rancor between the two camps. Of those who said one of the contenders was more to blame than the other, 21 percent blamed Clinton, and 6 percent said Obama.

"It's fairly obvious it's not going to be over February 5," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Source: Barack Obama wins South Carolina, CNN projects - CNN.com

marklv · 01-26-2008, 22:17 PM

Well, no real surprise here. Hillary is still favourite to get the nomination; Obama is too inexperienced and too identified with the black community to win the broad support he needs. The blacks and many of the better educated white liberals go for him, but Hillary has a much broader base of support from the traditional Democrat supporters. I expect Hillary Clinton to come back strongly on Super Tuesday. The Republican race is much more interesting.

troung · 01-26-2008, 22:51 PM

For what it is worth one can sum up Hillary Clinton's experience in office as having sex with Bill at least once; before he was in the white house...

Trademarked...

And helping the Republicans into control of Congress.

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Gravel vs. Paul in 2008 is what I want to see.

Not one of the candidates actually deserves to be in the white house might as well grab the two weird ones.

BudW · 01-26-2008, 23:31 PM

What is Hillarys experience?

BadKharma · 01-27-2008, 00:07 AM

I think troung summed it up nicely.

troung · 01-27-2008, 00:55 AM

IIRC Obama (not an Obama support BTW) has at least been in elected office since 1996 or something - Hillary at the same time was doing a pretty shitty job of first lady - as shown by Bill chasing skirts

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So Hillary does the president once and thus is qualified to be president.

01-26-2008, 22:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
troung A Self Important *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 08-03-03 Posts: 4,232 Country:	For what it is worth one can sum up Hillary Clinton's experience in office as having sex with Bill at least once; before he was in the white house... Trademarked... And helping the Republicans into control of Congress. ===================================== Gravel vs. Paul in 2008 is what I want to see. Not one of the candidates actually deserves to be in the white house might as well grab the two weird ones. __________________ To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

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01-26-2008, 22:17 PM	#2 (permalink)
marklv Banished Join Date: 11-18-05 Location: Reading, UK Posts: 100 Country:	Well, no real surprise here. Hillary is still favourite to get the nomination; Obama is too inexperienced and too identified with the black community to win the broad support he needs. The blacks and many of the better educated white liberals go for him, but Hillary has a much broader base of support from the traditional Democrat supporters. I expect Hillary Clinton to come back strongly on Super Tuesday. The Republican race is much more interesting.

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BadKharma Patron Join Date: 01-18-08 Location: Milwaukee, WI Posts: 188 Country:	I think troung summed it up nicely.

01-27-2008, 00:55 AM	#6 (permalink)
troung A Self Important *Senior Contributor* Join Date: 08-03-03 Posts: 4,232 Country:	IIRC Obama (not an Obama support BTW) has at least been in elected office since 1996 or something - Hillary at the same time was doing a pretty shitty job of first lady - as shown by Bill chasing skirts . So Hillary does the president once and thus is qualified to be president.

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