Hill's Bills, What's Going On?

Edwards could be within striking distance of a 2nd place finish. Leads among white males. Could win the white vote... How would you spin that?

According to the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll, Edwards has gained 4 percentage points since Wednesday and is the choice of 19 percent of likely voters. Obama maintains the S.C. lead at 39 percent but his lead is down 4 percentage points over Clinton from a day earlier.Clinton logged in at 24 percent. That puts Edwards, who desperately needs a victory Saturday,in a statistical tie with Clinton for second place.Edwards has overtaken Clinton among male voters in the poll, registering 23 percent support toClinton’s 19 percent, a rise of 8 percentage points for Edwards.

Some guys just can't vote for a black, or a sweet girl.

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1:00PM
So, Big Day. Pooh. I just don't much care what happens in a Democrat primary. However, the outcome does have some meaning for the well being of the republic, so I should at least follow developments as information.

The Clinton orientation of the nation as a personal plaything I do think is new to American politics, and now that Obama wants to take away their toy the Billy and the Hilly are throwing a hissy fit. This is new, I mean to have an American political party dominated for fifteen years by a child mind just isn't what you would expect in a second Rome. But then Rome didn't remain Rome either.

I'll read and follow through the course of the day. My only real hope is that I see some damage occur, and that some mental health begin to return to one half of our political spectrum.

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6:15, First Results
(From RCP Blog)

Obama winning 24% of white voters... Among white voters, Edwards won white males 44, Clinton 28, Obama27. Clinton won white women 42, Edwards 35, Obama 22.

Fox News exits: Obama winning black vote 81-19 over Clinton. White vote is Edwards 39, Clinton 36...

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1:30PM
......Breaking news so far is that the weather is fine.

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6:15, First Results
(From RCP Blog)

Obama winning 24% of white voters... Among white voters, Edwards won white males 44, Clinton 28, Obama27. Clinton won white women 42, Edwards 35, Obama 22.

Fox News exits: Obama winning black vote 81-19 over Clinton. White vote is Edwards 39, Clinton 36...

Interesting. Edwards leading among white males, and in general in the white vote; Hillary leading among females, who outnumber males, but only getting a small portion of the black vote, and leading only a little among white women. If Edwards gets any black vote he could beat Hill. This will be clear in just minutes.

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6:35

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 Sen. Hillary RodhamClinton running second and John Edwards third, NBC reported....

Clinton and Edwards each won roughly 40 percent of the white vote, with about 25 percent going to Obama.....

And this is enough exit poll data for the time being.

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6:45
Whoops! Bill Bradley reports Edwards only got 1% of the black vote. 2nd place doesn't look good.

Also, from CNN's Political Ticker:

“Roughly 6 in 10 South Carolina Democratic primary voters said Bill Clinton’s campaigning was important in how they ultimately decided to vote, and of those voters, 48 percent went for Barack Obama while only 37 percent went for Hillary Clinton.”

This is wholesome.

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7:15
Barack may win by 20 points. A win is a win is a win, and a blowout is a blowout is a blowout. This has been a good night. Now I gotta go talk to my canary.

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8:03

ReutersC-span/Zogby
Last night:
Obama 41, Hillary 26, Edwards 19

Tonight, C-span,
86% reporting:
Obama 54, Hillary 27, Edwards19