Battle For South Carolina
This is from a post by Faye Anderson at Anderson@Large.
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s surprising victory in the New Hampshire primary sets the stage for a showdown with Sen. Barack Obama in the Jan. 26 South Carolina primary.
In stark contrast to the virtually all-white electorate in Iowa and New Hampshire, African Americans will make up 50 percent of primary voters in South Carolina. The “black primary” will unfold in the state that was the first to secede from the Union, the site of the first battle in the Civil War, and where the Confederate flag still flies on the Statehouse grounds.
While black men got the right to vote before black women, sisters will determine whether Clinton or Obama leaves the Palmetto State with a pep in their step as they march on to Super Duper Tuesday.
In his concession speech last night, Obama said:
But the reason our campaign has always been different, the reason we began this improbable journey almost a year ago is because it’s not just about what I will do as president. It is also about what you, the people who love this country, the citizens of the United States of America, can do to change it.
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