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Seems too me that Hillary sunk Baraks battleship in New Hampshire, Barak is just the same as Shrillary, and George W. none have any experience on running anything,

and America is tired of incompetent people running our country into the ground.

The only reason Barak will win if he wins anything is his skin color the reason being everyone has too tread lightly or they will be considered racist in regards too any form of criticism. Political Correctness is destroying freedom of speach... Barak is the political equivalent too Michael Jackson...

Am I the only one who has noticed the significance of Bill Richardson dropping out of the presidential race? It's a lock for Hillary if she gets him on her team. The Latino vote will be HUGE and a lock for a Hillary/Bill Richardson ticket. Votewise, they would be unstoppable, mark my words here. I've seen no other post pointing this out !!!

Are we really gonna get into semantics about his race?? Reminds me of when Tiger Woods 1st came on the scene...... When the media discussed him they called him the black golfer.......... When he started taking the "old masters" out one after the other he then became the half black /half aisian, or mixed golfer........ (shaking my head). Guess you can be black no mater your mix once you stay poor and in the background.

This should not be an arguement about his "level of blackness", but his campaign for office, and in this particular thread marking a historic moment in American history where a man with any level of "blackness" won a caucuss in Iowa.

So are you implying that the citizens of New Hampshire are not intelligent?

Is this thread about skin color still going on? Yikes!

Obama won in Iowa on his speaking and presentation ability.

This does take intelligence, however, I see no intelligent plan of action as far as leading a nation though.

Obama needs to start talking 'plans' and 'strategies' for his promises if he really wants the votes of those looking beyond being inspired. :-)

-He is the ANTI-CHRIST. Ask God if this is true! God Doesn't Lie! He will speak a WORD to you if you really want to know; just ask.

It is truly great that an african american man looks poised to be the next president, but honestly, it's not all that amazing to me that iowans voted the way they did. the media likes to portray iowa as this lilly white state full of farmers, but that is simply not the case. while iowa does indeed have a small number of minorities, it is ranked as one of the top states for interacial child births. sure there are a lot of farmers, but there is a big university there as well! the state is pretty liberal, and the university of iowa draws many people from diverse cultures and backgrounds into the iowa city/coralville area. there is also an active and large (proportionately) gay community in the iowa city area too. i lived in iowa for a number of years so i can atest to these facts personally

By DAVID ESPO and CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writers
1 hour, 10 minutes ago



COLUMBIA, S.C. - Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.


"The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders," Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. "It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it's not about black versus white. It's about the past versus the future."

The audience chanted "Race doesn't matter" as it awaited Obama to make his appearance after rolling up 55 percent of the vote in a three-way race.

But it did, in a primary that shattered turnout records.

About half the voters were black, according to polling place interviews, and four out of five of them supported Obama. Black women turned out in particularly large numbers. Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, got about a quarter of the white vote while Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina split the rest.

Clinton flew to Nashville as the polls closed, and looked ahead. "Now the eyes of the country turn to Tennessee and the other states voting on Feb. 5," she said, adding "millions and millions of Americans are going to have their voices heard."

Edwards finished a distant third, a sharp setback in the state where he was born and scored a primary victory in his first presidential campaign four years ago. Even so, he vowed to remain in the race, his goal, he said, to "give voice to all those whose voices aren't being heard."

The victory was Obama's first since he won the kickoff Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3. Clinton, a New York senator and former first lady, scored an upset in the New Hampshire primary a few days later. They split the Nevada caucuses, she winning the turnout race, he gaining a one-delegate margin. In an historic race, she hopes to become the first woman to occupy the White House, and Obama is the strongest black contender in history.

The South Carolina primary marked the end of the first phase of the campaign for the Democratic nomination, a series of single-state contests that winnowed the field, conferred co-front-runner status on Clinton and Obama but had relatively few delegates at stake.

That all changes in 10 days' time, when New York, Illinois and California are among the 15 states holding primaries in a virtual nationwide primary. Another seven states and American Samoa will hold Democratic caucuses on the same day.

Obama took a thinly veiled swipe at Clinton in his remarks.

"We are up against conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor, and judgment, and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose — a higher purpose," Obama said.

Looking ahead to Feb. 5, he added that "nearly half the nation will have the chance to join us in saying that we are tired of business-as-usual in Washington, we are hungry for change, and we are ready to believe again."

Nearly complete returns showed Obama winning 55 percent of the vote, Clinton gaining 27 percent. Edwards had 18 percent and won only his home county of Oconee.

Obama also gained 25 convention delegates, Clinton won 12 and Edwards eight.

Overall, Clinton has 249 delegates, followed by Obama with 167 and Edwards with 58.

Obama also gained an endorsement from Caroline Kennedy, who likened the Illinois senator to her late father, President John F. Kennedy.

"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," she wrote on The New York Times op-ed page. "But for the first time, I believe I have found a man who could be that president — and not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

All three contenders campaigned in South Carolina on primary day, but only Obama and Edwards arranged to speak to supporters after the polls closed. Clinton left for Tennessee as the polls were closing. 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.

Nearly six in 10 voters said the former president's efforts for his wife was important to their choice, and among them, slightly more favored Obama than the former first lady.

Overall, Obama defeated Clinton among both men and women.

The exit polls showed the economy was the most important issue in the race. About one quarter picked health care. And only one in five said it was the war in Iraq, underscoring the extent to which the once-dominant issue has faded in the face of financial concerns.

The exit poll was conducted by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International for The Associated Press and the networks.

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Associated Press writers Beth Fouhy, Seanna Adcox and Mike Baker in Columbia, S.C., contributed to this report.


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