South Carolina Democrat primary: Donkey rumble; Update: A “rout” for Obama; anti-Bill Clinton backlash
Update 7:45pm Eastern. A Billy Jeff backlash. Keep talking, Billy Boy!
Update 7:11pm Eastern. Obama is the runaway winner. Hillary has left SC for Nashville…
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.
Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina was running third, a sharp setback in the state where he was born and scored a primary victory in his first presidential campaign four years ago.
The Associated Press made its call based on surveys of voters as they left the polls.
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. Clinton and Edwards each won roughly 40 percent of the white vote, with about 25 percent going to Obama, the first-term Illinois senator.
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Polls close at 7pm Eastern. South Carolina media outlets are reporting record turnout. The State:
Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today’s presidential primary, continuing a trend seen in other early-voting states.
A big turnout likely will propel the winning candidate into so-called “Tsunami Tuesday,” when more than 20 states vote Feb. 5. But state party leaders said it also will make Democrats more competitive in South Carolina.
Despite the surge in voters, though, few believe a Democratic candidate has a shot to win South Carolina in November’s general election. The numbers aren’t there yet.
Adam at Palmetto Scoop blogs on the “corridor of shame” and “the lack of any real change that will come from all the Democrats’ empty rhetoric.”
Meanwhile, back in the Clinton camp: Robocalls.
And via Yahoo News, baby-hurling!
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Glad their not judging tonights Miss America Pageant.
Here’s hoping for a Hilary win. Why you ask? Because her racist tactics will finally shatter the dems deathgrip on the black vote, and maybe the GOP nominee can finally show that voting bloc that the dems have been nothing but trouble.
Pretty funny how Obama and Hillary kept their baby a secret for so long.
Does anyone else notice that about the Clintons? They only call if they want something — usually for me to vote for someone. They never call just to say hi. bleh.
LOL, I liked that!
“Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout”
*gag*
I wonder if Obama, given the long record of the democrats anti-civil rights agenda, has a chance to actually win at the convention. I’ve been wondering about that lately. My question is, are they stringing him along to give a good impression of the party, and then make sure he comes in second at the convention,regardless of support? Or, has the party done a 180 completely in the civil rights arena? They always want to support the idea that minorities should get just enough to keep supporting the party, and never anything to actually better themselves and succeed. It has always been “give them a fish to feed them for a day”, rather than, “teach them to fish and feed themselves for a lifetime.” I’m just curious that if Obama holds his own, whether the party heads will get together and insure a Clinton victory. They get the leader they want to run for the WH, and, at the same time, show the country that “they care”. One of the reasons I left the Democrats years ago, was because of their hypocrisy.(Not a sermon, just a thought)
#2 no way will blacks be pushed to vote Republican regardless of what sins the clintons put forth. Look at how dems in general are oblivious to all the evil wrought by the Clintons. Allegedly educated women are having orgasms just thinking of those two bozos back in the white house. I see it daily in editorials inside my local liberal rag here in S. Florida. I never get anything bashing bubba, but still receive frequent condemnations of Bush, going back to the DUI and bogus TANG memos and AWOL on 911 BS.
I’m not wishing anyone bad karma, but it is funny that serial killers and accidents don’t ever rid us of the malfactors that corrupt our society.
AJ How do you know that’s not Bill’s
That’s a cute baby. I bet he’s thinking, if she cackles I’m throwing up!!!!
Baby-hurling? If I was that baby, I’d definitely hurl!
Or, maybe, the other end.
Pot, Meet Kettle, Kettle, meet pot.
#8, I think the potential is there to siphon enough votes away in swing states. A Hilary victory is going to get a lot of urban community members talking about her tactics (it already is in Philly, based on my coversations), so if the GOP decides to actually pay more than lip service talking about families, and actually talk to the community leaders abouthow they can do things better than the demsand their 40 year track record of failure, then I think we have a shot. Though I don’t think McCain can do it, Rudy or Mitt have a chance.
She is in my state now?! I thought I felt a disturbance in the force.
It amazes me how the results canbe called with less than 1500 votes in. I don’t care what the acutal vote distribution is at this point. It seems as the networks are calling the race soon and sooner. I seem to remeber foxnews saying SC was too close to call (for the GOP) when only 1% of the precints had reported. Is it so much to ask to not call something when less than 1% of the vote is in?!?!?
Taylor, exit polls and networks are always right. Have you learned nothing from Presidents Kerry and Gore?
Get with it man, it is not about being right…it is about being first!
100% of the people I polled agree with me on this point. Not counting myself, 0%…yet either way, 0% disagree!
Polling is now closed.
eric
aka the Tygrrrr Express
I guess it is supposed to be a feather in their cap to be the first to call and election. Is it another feather, if they actually get it right?
Ooops…
andanDo you think HRC’s head is spinning on the plane ride to the Volunteer State, after the projected loss in SC?
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Did Hillary head down to the FloraBama for a baby tossing contest? Spring Break wont’ start for a few weeks!
FL Gov. Crist endorses McIdiot. too bad.
Taylork,
Yes, sorry to say.
There is not opportunity for Republicans here, none whatever. What are the Republicans going to do, obsessed as they are with aping the democrats every chance they get? Sooner or later they are going to have to state that Affirmative Action is junk and that freedom is not the same thing as “Racial Justice” — and at that moment the black vote will disappear if they even get that far. So nothing will change. The democrats know this as the following bit wonderfully illustrates.
I offer for your consideration (quoted from IMDB) this quote from the movie Bulworth. Sorry if it offends, but there is more truth here than will ever be uttered in this entire campaign by both parties combined. The character of Mr. Bulworth, by the way, is a suicidal (in more ways than one) democrat politician:
Are you sayin’ the Democratic Party don’t care about the African-American community?
Bullworth: Isn’t that OBVIOUS? You got half your kids are out of work and the other half are in jail. Do you see ANY Democrat doing anything about it? Certainly not me! So what’re you gonna do, vote Republican? Come on! Come on, you’re not gonna vote Republican! Let’s call a spade a spade!
[Loud, angry booing]
Bullworth: I mean – come on! You can have a Billion Man March! If you don’t put down that malt liquor and chicken wings, and get behind someone other than a running back who stabs his wife, you’re NEVER gonna get rid of somebody like me!
Am very mad at Crist. I will remember his endorsement for McCain if he runs for re-election—Crist is just part of the “old” establishment who are rolling over for McCain. Wonder what deals were cut for him to do this?Grrr.
On the other hand,I don’t think endorsments mean squat. Certainly Mel Martinez’s endorsment made some people run the other way.
Our opportunistic governor here in Florida just endorsed Sen McCain. What he looking for a cabinet position?
Meanwhile, Clinton spokesman, Wolfman Wolfson, is touting a Clinton victory in Florida come Tuesday. Hey wait…I thought the DNC said Florida would not get delegates because they went against the grain? Oh, yeah, I forgot…that was then, this is NOW!
Nelson of the Simpson’s points at Billary and say’s Ha!Ha!
Right now the count is running 53-27 for Obama. Looks like he’s Hillary-slappin’ Hillary!
When might we be able to look forward to John Edwards seeing that he his wasting his time running? Or, maybe, he will stay in and draw some votes off sHillary for a while.
Why doesn’t anyone comment on how racist the democrat party is? The majority of the blacks voted for a black and the majority of the whites voted for a white. Not exactly a pretty picture when you would think they would be voting on the issues. Compare that to the recent election of a minority Republican in another southern state… Louisiana.
Come to think of it the black Democrats don’t get the irony because they are racists too.
Hitterly just lost the nomination.
She can not stand up to BHO speeches.
The fat lady has sung for ya Hill, now get off the stage.
And take that slimy piece of s**t of a husband with you.
I don’t know…Hillary is a bit like the Terminator.
But I have a feeling BJ Clinton is going to be sent on some international missions for a while.
Caroline Kennedy will endorse Obama in tomorrow’s NYT. The title of the editorial? “A President Like My Father”.
Caroline better sleep with one eye open.
Hillary is dying on stage…I switched to C-Span since the other networks cut her off. You can hear crickets chirping at what she hoped would be applause lines.
She will win the nomination, but she is not inspiring anybody at her rally tonight.
She just accused businesses of taking advantage of the American people.
Wow, this is a train wreck.
Respectfully,
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
P.S. She compared college students to indentured servants.
The show is over, time to pop in a movie, Spittle Rivera is on FNC now… What a jerk.
Boy I would love to be a fly on the wall tonight in Hill & Bill’s bedroom. I can only imagine she’s ripping his throat out.
I hope this means that more people are FINALLY getting tired of the Clintons.
I’ve been sickened by them, embarrassed by them, and disgusted with them for more than two decades now. It’s about time some others wake up and realize what the Clintons are: criminals, traitors, liars, manipulators, power-mongers, sleaze balls, perverts, and scum. The Clinton’s are lower than the sand that’s under whale poop… that’s how low they are.
Every single person in America will be better off if we can just get rid of these creeps once and for all.
Note how most of the news outlets are glossing over the mind-boggling margin by which Obama won. MORE THAN DOUBLE the predicted margin.
My heart is filled with joy this evening…… Maybe, just maybe this is the beginning of the end for these awful, terrible people.
It was posted that Hillary took a swipe at businesses taking advantage of the folks and whats with that? She should ask Ford Motor Company and the rest of the domestic automakers how they are screwing the American people with their reported quarterly losses. Hillary better not bust the hen that lays the egg.
Ummmm, I feel more and more sorry for Chelsea by the day.
More race-baiting from Billy-Boy. I read that he’s now saying that Obama won a fair victory in S.C. just like Jesse Jackson did in a previous S.C. primary. (duh, get it?)
damn. i want hillary to win because god knows mccain and romney can’t mobilize our voters.
This is the Democrat Party base. That is why it is so hard to get rid of the Clintons.
I find it funny that when Billary took NH and NV all the pundit’s where saying how Billary would win the SC primary, now they say we knew Obama would win in SC that’s what we’ve said all along. What a bunch of lying egotistical idiot’s they can never never be wrong. LOL
You say that like it is a Bad Thing.
I have been watching the Clinton supporting spin doctors on Fox News all morning. Keep it up guys and gals it just might make the voters of color in this country wake up to find out they have been had by the Democrats for decades. At least things are getting interesting in the Democrat race.
I wouldn’t be too sure. This analysis by Michael Graham ends with the prediction:
Unfortunately, Graham’s article is persuasive and the Clintons’ cynical ploy will probably work.
Even though he’s a Democrat through and through, I gotta give it up for Obama – for while defeating one Clinton is an accomplishment few have mastered, defeating two of them at one time is a victory to celebrate in any partisan’s land!
I hate that I missed it. Did she look like Beetlejuice with her head spinning from that huge loss? LOL