I found it very interesting. I'm glad these voters in South Carolina are stepping up, it's very heartening

Hillary's campaign was perfect and in high-gear! She earned every single vote!!

So in 2008, 55% or 5.5 in 10 and now in 2016 6 in 10 or 60%.

Yeah, that is a YUUUGE difference.

Pretty damned huge, considering.

She identified her base and energized it. Now where's that magical Bernie Revolutionary Youth Brigade?

yet again.

Without those voting blocs she is dead in the GE.

I'm confident Clinton will prevail in a GE.

I am not surprised.

Blacks made up a larger percentage of the electorate. That doesn't automatically mean more voted. It could alternately mean the white vote went down in the Democratic primary versus 2008. Have to wait until the results are posted.

My point still stands; nobody would have expected her to pull a greater percentage etc.

...not vote, or just greater involvement by Blacks. Hopefully the latter, as it is the option that doesn't have people turning away from Dems.

Somehow I think if the number of Dem voters were higher than in 2008, somebody would have reported that.

In 2008, Obama won 78-19 vs Hillary. Today, Hillary won the black vote 83-17!

What were the relative absolute numbers of voters?

Of how Whites are abandoning the democratic party.

Strangely I think this is helps Sanders with whites across the country. The more Clinton is seen as the politician of blacks, that is to going to garn votes for Sanders. Unfortunetly race is still huge issue in this country.

Fuckin priceless.

Are you disagreeing with me that whites vote less with dems? This is trend for 30 years. Less white people = more percentage of blacks make up democrat voters. This was in explanation why blacks made up more of the vote in SC than in 08 when Obama was on the ballot. It is not result of more voters (turnout is down 20-30%), its result of more whites leaving/not voting in the dem primary.

were voting for HRC, a Democrat. Now you expand on that to say whites are running away from the democratic party to Sanders. That's some truly fucked up shit.

You are having issues understanding what I'm saying, so I'll make it basic for you.

1) Increase in AA % in SC is due to whites fleeing the Dem party
2) Some whites will support Sanders (or not support Hillary) because they are racist and don't want to be associate with any politician seen as black friendly

Which of those two statements do you disagree with?

Percentage does not equal number. How many overall people cast Democratic ballots today vs. in 2008?

Numbers are going to be down, obviously.

Other than the concerted effort the entire Democratic party and corporate media establishment has mounted to drive turnout down, of course.

Obviously turnout is down because there is no one like Barack Obama in the race bringing out white or black voters.

But, to answer your question, turnout numbers:

2016 - 363,000
2008 - 530,000
2004 - 292,000

Related to that, more than eight in 10 voters said that reducing gun violence was more important than protecting gun rights, even though about four in 10 voters said they were gun owners.

Another big issue was race relations. It has been said by numerous ppl on this board that many minorities were not feeling a solely economic platform with a few social justice bones thrown to the side.

That bodes well...