COLUMBIA, S.C. - NBC News declared Sen. Barack Obama as the projected winner in South Carolina's Democratic primary.
Obama won South Carolina by a substantial margin, with Hillary Rodham Clinton running second and John Edwards third, NBC reported.
Obama reached out for victory over Clinton in a racially charged primary, a prelude to the Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 national convention delegates.
Obama reached out for victory over Clinton in a racially charged primary, a prelude to the Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 national convention delegates.
South Carolina's primary offered 45 Democratic National Convention delegates, as well as the campaign's first indication of Obama's political appeal in a state with a large black population.
Interviews with voters as they left their polling places indicated about half the electorate was black.
Half the voters said the economy was the most important issue in the race. About one quarter picked health care. And only one in five said it was the war in Iraq, underscoring the extent to which the once-dominant issue has faded in the face of financial concerns.
Roughly half the voters said former President Clinton's campaigning for his wife was very important to their choice.
The exit poll was conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for The Associated Press and the networks.
4 comments:
a good win for Obama. He needs to stay above the Clintons. The moral highground that is.
I'm so happy right now and I hope that this momentum will carry him through super Tuesday.
Here in Colorado he is ahead by 2 points according to the latest poll taken before the S.C. win. So the numbers should bump up with the victory.
It's a big deal since as late as September of last year she was up her by 16 points.
Obama can do it!! We can do it!!
I'm going to donate some more cash to him I think. I can't afford a lot but I want to chip in what I can and I urge everyone who supports him to do the same.
Yeah, James. I'm tossing him some love today, too. And going online to see how I can help his campaign.
Glad to see the Kennedys supporting him.
obob,
I understand what you're saying about the Clintons and the "moral highground."
But we also believe that it is immoral to drag a country to war based on deception. What about that immoral lowground that Bush owns?
he lost it in the housing crisis and the Democrats bought due to the buyers market thanks to subprimes
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