Just in case anybody was wondering, Barack Obama won the South Carolina Primary, which is noteworthy for its significant proportion of black voters. Consequently it's not surprising that Obama would do well, but it might put to rest the idea that black voters were going to abandon Obama for the Clintons because Bill Clinton is more genuinely "black" than Barack. Instead Senator Obama won the primary with 55% of the vote and an enormous turn-out of black voters, 80% of whom voted for Obama.
White South Carolina voters split on the white candidates with the men going to Edwards and the women to Clinton, and Edwards could have used a win in South Carolina to make himself a viable candidate, but he still came in third (again). Hillary Clinton really got hit with the backlash of Bill Clinton's attacks on Obama and attempts to make race a heavy issue, and amazingly she still has yet to come up with more delegates than Obama in any venue other than the DNC.
Up next is Florida, the last primary before Super Tuesday.
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