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Time
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Jan 27, 08 6:59 PM CST
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Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail full-time last week, and she is proving a formidable force in her own right, Time reports. As Democratic campaigns grow more vicious, presidential hopeful Barack needs someone to lean on—and Michelle’s proud role as a self-proclaimed "working-class girl" who could be "the next first lady" helps to ground her husband’s uplifting message in reality.
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Washington Post
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Jan 27, 08 1:00 PM CST
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The nation is enraptured with the prospect of a female or black president, and John Edwards' loss in his home state yesterday underscores his inability to nab the spotlight from his celebrity rivals. "He is the most gifted athlete on the field, but there's just not room," one staffer tells the Washington Post .
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New York Times
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Jan 27, 08 8:26 AM CST
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The Clintons threw their worst at Obama during the past week in South Carolina, hoping they'd rattled him, but in fact he emerged from this test of mettle with new strength, Patrick Healy writes in the New York Times . Obama's landslide rested on a high turnout of black voters, but also drew key support across racial lines in a southern state.
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State (Columbia, SC)
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Jan 26, 08 11:30 PM CST
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Barack Obama scored a resounding triumph in the South Carolina primary last night, with massive support from black voters and stronger-than-expected backing from whites. Obama got 55% of the vote, more than doubling Hillary Clinton (27%) and tripling the state's native son, John Edwards (18%). Election officials said a record 530,000 voters participated, about half of whom were black, the State reports.
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New York Times
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Jan 26, 08 4:15 PM CST
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As South Carolina hits the polls today, one word looms large: race. This is, after all, the first primary state with a notable black population, which pollsters say will help boost Barack Obama to a double-digit victory. It’s also home to a newspaper that got an angry phone call for “supporting a black man for President of the United States.”
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State (Columbia, SC)
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Jan 26, 08 11:44 AM CST
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Democratic officials are expecting record voter turnout for today’s South Carolina primary because of sunny skies and appealing candidates, the State says. But make no mistake: Dems don’t expect to win the Palmetto State come November. No Democrat has won a Southern state since Bill Clinton in 1996, although party officials hope this year’s race spurs people to the polls and makes the general election more competitive.
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Wall Street Journal
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Jan 26, 08 9:53 AM CST
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With a double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton going into today's South Carolina primary, and Clinton having turned her attention to Super Tuesday states, Barack Obama can’t just win today, he must dominate, reports the Wall Street Journal . In a state where some 50% of registered Democrats are African-American, anything less could hurt his image among voters nationally.
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Associated Press
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Jan 25, 08 5:11 PM CST
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Hillary Clinton won endorsements today from two influential black women in South Carolina, who both asked African Americans to look past their enthusiasm for Barack Obama, the AP reports. Clinton has concentrated on wooing white voters there, but today she visited historically black Benedict College, where dean Stacey Franklin Jones said it’s crucial to “focus on our community’s future rather than acting on pure emotion.”
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State (Columbia, SC)
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Jan 25, 08 1:00 PM CST
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South Carolina may yet smile on native son John Edwards, polls taken since Monday's debate indicate. A Zogby poll released yesterday and a Clemson University Palmetto Poll out today show the ex-senator in a statistical tie with Hillary Clinton—both well behind Barack Obama, reports The State. Common to every poll registering Edwards' gains are vast swaths of undecided voters.
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Reuters
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Jan 23, 08 4:36 AM CST
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Presidential hopeful Barack Obama holds a 42% to 25% lead over Hillary Clinton in the upcoming South Carolina primary, finds a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released today. Race looks to be a key factor, with African-Americans, who made up just over half the poll sample, favoring Obama over Clinton 65% to 16%. Among whites, Clinton and John Edwards are nearly tied with 33% and 32%, while Obama trails at 18%.
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Washington Post
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Jan 22, 08 6:31 AM CST
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Last night's acrimonious Democratic presidential debate saw Barack Obama confront an increasingly aggressive Hillary Clinton, reports the Washington Post , but the Illinois senator was really countering two Clintons at once. Over the past two weeks Bill has led the charge against Obama's credibility and record, most notoriously with his "fairy tale" remark, and last night Obama retorted, "I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes."
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CNN
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Jan 21, 08 8:35 PM CST
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama drowned out policy talk in a South Carolina presidential debate tonight as they bickered over Ronald Reagan and what Obama called Clinton's "corporate" past, CNN reports. On economic policy, they wrangled over Senate votes as much as subprime bailout plans. “This kind of squabbling, how many kids are going to get health care from this?" John Edwards asked.
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Houston Chronicle
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Jan 21, 08 8:48 AM CST
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The odds are increasingly good that despite Super Tuesday's upgrade to "Duper," no obvious winner in either party will emerge by February 5. That means the March 4 Texas primary, largely written off earlier, may play a critical role in deciding nominees for both parties. Huckabee hosted the first primary event of the year there last night at Chuck Norris's ranch, the Houston Chronicle reports.
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Chicago Tribune
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Jan 20, 08 5:25 AM CST
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GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said yesterday he needed a win in South Carolina to keep his campaign alive, but he hasn't officially pulled out—yet—despite a distant third-place 16% of the vote to frontrunner John McCain's 33%. But the writing seems to be on the wall, reports the Chicago Tribune . "It's been about our country," he told supporters, sounding like someone packing it in.
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State (Columbia, SC)
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Jan 19, 08 9:13 PM CST
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John McCain reclaimed the ever-elusive momentum in the GOP race tonight with a narrow victory over Mike Huckabee in South Carolina, the State reports. McCain got 33% of the vote to Huckabee's 30%. Fred Thompson, for whom South Carolina was a make-or-break state, finished a distant third (16%), just ahead of Mitt Romney (15%). The former Massachusetts governor won the Nevada caucuses earlier in the day.
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State (Columbia, SC)
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Jan 19, 08 11:11 AM CST
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Today's forecast for parts of South Carolina calls for up to 3 inches of snow, but analysts say if turnout is low in today’s GOP primary, it’ll be because of the candidates, not the weather. Times have changed: “People would have walked through broken glass in their bare feet to vote (for Ronald Reagan),” one GOP strategist tells The State .
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New York Times
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Jan 19, 08 9:39 AM CST
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As he looks beyond South Carolina, Mike Huckabee strives to balance his evangelicalism with a more secular image, hoping to win support across the spectrum, the New York Times reports. Though a Christian vote even bigger than Iowa's could carry him in today's primary, the ex-preacher will soon face voters less interested in conservative Christian ideas.
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