NPR: Obama Scores Big Win in South Carolina

Obama Scores Big Win in South Carolina

In a not unexpected victory - but one larger than expected - Sen. Barack Obama won the Democratic South Carolina primary tonight. With around 90 percent of the polls reporting, Obama had a 29-point lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton, 55 to 26 percent. Former Sen. John Edwards, who won the South Carolina primary in 2004, was in third place with around 20 percent of the vote.

The Associated Press reports that about half the voters were black, according to polling place interviews, and four out of five of them supported Obama. As predicted by many, black women (known as the beauty parlor moms) turned out in particularly large numbers. Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, got a quarter of the white vote while Clinton and Edwards split the rest.

Exit polls showed that the main reason people voted for Obama - around 53 percent - was that he would bring change. Only 6 percent voted for him because they considered electability in a general election as the most important factor.

8:06 PM ET | 01-26-2008 | permalink

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Thank God Obama won big. If Billiary (Bush in a skirt)had won she would have given an hour long victory speech instead SC got half a line thank you support (basically saying to the ones who did vote for her ;THANKS FOR NOTHING) I'm white and there's nothing that pisses me off more than liars like the Clintons. Obama reminds me of the Kenedy's. If the United States of America is going to lead the world it will need the guidance of an honest man with little experience in the way things had worked in the oval office but judgement in the way things should work.
God Bless

Sent by Dan | 2:56 AM ET | 01-27-2008

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