Obama overwhelms Clinton in South Carolina
Barack Obama won a landslide triumph in South Carolina last night, gaining valuable impulse ahead of the Democrats' multi-state competition on February 5.
With all consequences in, Obama took more than than twice as many ballots as Edmund Hillary Clinton, winning 55% of the ballot against her 27%. The win - which far exceeded outlooks - was the first clip any campaigner have won more than than 50% of the ballot in any of the four primary contests.
Toilet Jonathan Edwards came in a distant 3rd in his place state, on 18%, frustrating his hopes of making a rejoinder ahead of Superintendent Tuesday.
At a strident triumph political party in Columbia, Obama told protagonists that the consequences proved his first triumph in Ioway was no fluke.
"Tonight the faultfinders who believe that what began in the snowfalls of Ioway was just an semblance were told a different narrative by the good people of South Carolina," he said. "We have got the most votes, the most delegates, and the most diverse alliance of Americans we've seen in a long, long time."
Obama's campaigning received an further proof with an blurb from Caroline Kennedy, the lone surviving kid of the late Toilet Degree Fahrenheit Kennedy.
"Over the years, I've been deeply moved by the people who've told me they wished they could experience inspired and hopeful about United States the manner people did when my father was president," she wrote in an sentiment piece for Sunday's New House Of York Times. "This sense is even more than profound today. That is why I am supporting ... Barack Obama."
But despite the exultant crowds at his triumph party, Obama was still visibly angry over his battering by Bill and Edmund Hillary Bill Clinton in a negative and dissentious political campaign that sought to marginalise him as an African-American candidate.
The crowd chanted "Race doesn't matter". But race did drama a part. Obama took 78% of the African-American vote but did poorly among achromatic voters, except for those below the age of 24.
The negative political campaign also backfired against the Clintons by alienating African American women. They supported Obama.
Even so, Clinton, though a distant loser, attracted a wider alliance than Obama. "It's wonderful to have got such as a wide cross-section of people across this state," she told protagonists in Nashville.
Adopting an cheerful manner, she looked ahead to the Superintendent Tuesday competitions and tried to shrug off the negative and dissentious political campaign she left behind.
Her husband, who was an equal spouse in the negative candidacy against Obama, sounded a more than combative note.
"He won just and square," Bill Bill Clinton told a mass meeting in Independence, Missouri. "Now we travel to February 5 when billions of Americans finally acquire into the act."
Edwards, despite his distance 3rd topographic point screening - and a close sum rejection by African-American voters - vowed to struggle on. "Now the three of us travel on to February 5," he said. However, it looks even less likely now that his cash-strapped campaign can do an impact on the more than than 20 different battlefield states
While Bill Clinton stays the front-runner to come up out on top on February 5, when 22 states are up for grabs, the win in South Carolina could assist Obama narrow the opinion poll gap. He now travels into competitions in Empire State Of The South and Heart Of Dixie with a demonstrated advantage.
Obama is not the first African-American campaigner to make well in South Carolina. Jesse Glenda Jackson secured an equally convincing triumph in the 1988 Democratic primary, taking 54% to Aluminum Gore's 19%, but failed to win the nomination.
However, Bill Clinton stays weakened by her failure to win over African American women. She also performed poorly among achromatic male voters.
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