Strong Black Vote Gives Obama SC Win

[boston bean]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hA56eU4xORrSjYhxJkpWa_qMaGwgD8UE0H980

WASHINGTON (AP) — Landslide margins among black voters powered Barack Obama to his win Saturday in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, allowing him to overcome the telling edge Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards had among whites.

Blacks made up 55 percent of the voters in Saturday's contest, slightly more than turned out in the state's primary four years ago and by far their biggest share in any presidential contest so far this year. Obama won 78 percent of their votes, with black men and women supporting the Illinois senator by about that same margin, according to exit polls of Democratic voters conducted Saturday for The Associated Press and the networks.

Clinton and Edwards split the white vote about equally, with each getting support from nearly four in 10 and Obama getting about a quarter. Obama's high-water mark among white voters so far this year has been the 36 percent he got in New Hampshire, where he finished second overall to Clinton; he also got a third of the white vote in the year's first contest in Iowa, enough for him to win overall in that state.

Highlighting the decisive role race played in Saturday's voting, eight in 10 of Obama's votes came from blacks. About six in 10 of Clinton's and nearly all of Edwards' came from whites.

[gaiilonfong]

1. Yep and Hillary got .....ROUTED!

bwahahahahaa

[boston bean]

3. Yes she did. nt

[jackson_dem]

2. The AP is running this? Bad for Obama

Emphasis added:

-snip-

WASHINGTON (AP) — Landslide margins among black voters powered Barack Obama to his win Saturday in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, allowing him to overcome the telling edge Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards had among whites

[boston bean]

6. 8 out of ten of his votes were AA.

I have always been one who wants to discuss race and gender, not in racial or sexist terms, I have seen it all here on DU. But actually talk about how this country is sick in those ways, without denigrating the candidates, and how it will play in the elections.

[matcom]

15. Alcoholics Anonymous?

surely you haven't dumbed down enough in your personal life to refer to an entire race of people by using 2 letters.

surely.

[boston bean]

17. huh, obama supporters use that acronym constantly.

I didn't see anything wrong with it, but if there is I will immediately stop using it.

[libbygurl]

4. 'Twill be interesting how that angle will ...

...play out in the rest of the major primary states for blacks, whites AS WELL AS Hispanics, Asians, etc.

[calico1]

7. I agree. Hispanics will play a larger role

in states like CA, NY, NJ. It will be interesting to see how the voting goes in states where there is a more varied mix of voters.

[boston bean]

13. It will be interesting to say the least. I don't know what might happen between

then and now, but I find it hard to see Hillary losing the support of women and hispanics.

[calico1]

24. Me too. n/t

[jefferson_dem]

5. Hmmm... Mine says "Obama routs Clinton in South Carolina"

That one's all over Yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080127/ap_on_el_pr/south_carolina_primary_68

[splat]

10. They're different stories

That one starts, " COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - 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."

[flpoljunkie]

8. Obama won the under 30 white vote 52%-27% while Edwards won the over 30 white vote.

And as much as the Clintons will try to make this out as a black thing that the rest of America just won’t understand, consider two facts:

Obama won with white folks under thirty 52 percent to 27.

Unimpressed? Consider that the winner of the white vote 30-and-over was not Hillary Clinton, but John Edwards.

This is a thumping.

http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/01/26/obama-laps-clinton/

[boston bean]

9. White voters under 30 made up one-twentieth of those who voted saturday.

From the article:

One segment of whites with whom Obama did well was young people. He won backing from half of white voters under age 30, with Clinton and Edwards splitting the rest. Young white voters, however, made up only about one-twentieth of those who voted Saturday.

[ProSense]

11. Hillary lost 65% of the white vote (58% of women, 72% of men), 78 % of the black vote (80% of women)

Hillary lost 65% of the white vote (58% of women, 72% of men), 78 % of the black vote (80% of women)

[boston bean]

12. Geez, how did she come in second then?

[ProSense]

14. It's all there at the link. n/t

[boston bean]

16. Yeah your link. stop spamming. It makes no sense the way you have garbled the numbers

please talk to someone you can fool with your worthless posts.

[ProSense]

18. The final results are there too, and I didn't have anything to do with putting them together. n/t

[boston bean]

19. You have twisted them and you know it, vour own spin. Please go away! nt

[ProSense]

21. No, face facts! n/t

[boston bean]

23. I do, you obviously do not. nt

[jefferson_dem]

20. Don't be so bitter.

Sure, Hillary didn't win. But it's only one state. Move on.

[boston bean]

22. I am not bitter. I live in reality.