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The Final S.C. polls before the election had Obama up anywhere from 15 to as little as 3 in a recent Survey USA poll.

 

Exit poll reuslts seem interesting on people's attitudes on how this campaign went.

Nearly six in 10 of those voting said former President Clinton's campaigning in the state was an important factor for them, including a quarter who called it very important.

 

ATTACK!!!!!

 

After the contentious Democratic debate Monday night, three in four Obama voters said Clinton had attacked Obama unfairly and slightly fewer than half accused their own candidate of attacking Clinton unfairly. Two-thirds of Clinton voters said Obama attacked her unfairly and nearly as many said she attacked him unfairly. Edwards voters were more likely than either of the other candidates' supporters to say both Clinton and Obama attacked each other unfairly.

 

LOOKING AHEAD

 

Roughly four out of five voters would be satisfied if Clinton or Obama wins the Democratic nomination. Slightly more Clinton voters would be dissatisfied with Obama than vice versa.

 

Slightly more Obama voters say Clinton would be more likely to be the eventual Democratic nominee than vice versa.

Interesting that nearly 50% of Clinton voters thought she went after Obama unfairly.
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QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Jan 26, 2008 -> 04:55 PM)
Rasmussen tracking poll has the national difference down to 3 or four points between Clinton and Obama. As I said before Iowa, attacking Obama backfires.

I took a look at that tracking poll, but as far as I can tell that's just the 1 day data, which is bound to have some very extreme errors/swings in it. I don't buy it until it becomes a trend.

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If the media wanted to really go after the Clintons for "playing the race card", which you know they'll want to do...here's the official blue ribbon video of that happening.

 

 

Bill gets asked a question not remotely relating to race, or even South Carolina. Bill's immediate response..."Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice".

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AP

After playing a muted role in the earlier contests, the issue of race dominated an incendiary week that included a shift in strategy for Obama, a remarkably bitter debate and fresh scrutiny of former President Clinton's role in his wife's campaign.

 

Each side accused the other of playing the race card, sparking a controversy that frequently involved Bill Clinton.

 

"They are getting votes, to be sure, because of their race or gender. That's why people tell me Hillary doesn't have a chance of winning here," the former president said at one stop as he campaigned for his wife, strongly suggesting that blacks would not support a white alternative to Obama.

 

Clinton campaign strategists denied any intentional effort to stir the racial debate. But they said they believe the fallout has had the effect of branding Obama as "the black candidate," a tag that could hurt him outside the South.

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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 26, 2008 -> 07:45 PM)
75% of the vote is in and Barack is still holding the two to one lead. Wow, this is an ass whipping of biblical proportions. Even the biggest polls I saw were only 18% wide. Clinton is going to have a hard time explaining this one away.

They already have. That's why you saw BEFORE the primary that they were going to lose because of the black vote. They've already "softened" the loss before it even happened.

 

That's yet another reason why I said after NH it didn't matter what happened or where, that the race is over.

 

 

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The Dems have beaten the Republican turnout numbers, and managed to turn out over 500,000 voters in South Carolina, breaking their old record by over 200,000 votes. Obama is now about to pass Huckabee + McCain combined, Clinton beat all the Republicans except McCain. BO with about a 28% win, more than doubling Hillary's numbers.

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QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Jan 26, 2008 -> 08:19 PM)
Hillary only had to win one state in a pretty close race? I don't buy that at all.

Oh yea. You have to understand that the media is creaming their pants for Hillary. After Obama "HAD A GIGANTIC WIN" and Hillary won, she got the "comeback kid" label Billy had. They got their wish, and you have to understand that the media has already WAAAAAAAAAY factored in an Obama win in SC purely because of the race factor, which is sad.

 

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