Obama Wins In Landslide

Hey folks,

No real news here about yesterday's South Carolina's Primary. Obama wins.

Barack Obama 55%
Hillary Clinton 27%
John Edwards 18%

» 100% of precincts reporting

AP - Obama routs Clinton in South Carolina By DAVID ESPO and CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 47 minutes ago

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.

I did like his speech.

"The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders," Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. "It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it's not about black versus white. It's about the past versus the future."

The audience chanted "Race doesn't matter" as it awaited Obama to make his appearance after rolling up 55 percent of the vote in a three-way race.

But it did, in a primary that shattered turnout records.

Yup.

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 about a quarter of the white vote while Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina split the rest.

I keep telling you, NEVER underestimate the power of looks.

Clinton flew to Nashville as the polls closed, and looked ahead. "Now the eyes of the country turn to Tennessee and the other states voting on Feb. 5," she said, adding "millions and millions of Americans are going to have their voices heard."

If you and Billy STOP playing the Race card, you MIGHT actually get more votes. Make no mistake about it, RACE and the Clintons own words DID play a major part in this.

Edwards finished a distant third, a sharp setback in the state where he was born and scored a primary victory in his first presidential campaign four years ago. Even so, he vowed to remain in the race, his goal, he said, to "give voice to all those whose voices aren't being heard."

It's time John. It really is.

There really is not too much more to talk about. This was expected. Now to Florida, then all the rest on Super Tuesday. NOW you are really going to see the battles on both sides intensify. This is going to be fun to watch.
Peter