For White House runners, South Carolina's toxic brew awaits

http://real-us.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080109/ts_alt_afp/usvote2008southcarolina

Interesting take on the Dems but also the GOP side. Some paragraphs:

"White, college-age kids in South Carolina are flocking to work for Obama, and this was happening before he became popular," said local historian Walter Edgar, acknowledging the lingering racial divide in this former slave state where blacks account for about half of Democratic primary voters.

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The state's black establishment had been firmly for Clinton, but Obama's win in overwhelmingly white Iowa changed the calculus for many.

"There had been this thinking that Obama was not electable. What that translates to is white people would not support him," said Bruce Ransom, an authority on South Carolina's black electorate at Clemson University.

Any South Carolinians who would care to comment on this?

And now, to look at the GOP side (snipped from article):

Among South Carolina's Republicans, an evangelically minded lot who hold their primary on January 19, Huckabee has pulled ahead of the pack with a lead of nearly 13 points in the RealClearPolitics average.

from the article...

<In 2000, false rumors were spread in South Carolina that the high-flying McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child. George W. Bush went on to win the state and the Republican nomination.

This time round, a Christmas card falsely purporting to be from the Romney family was sent to South Carolina mailboxes. The card cited controversial passages from the Book of Mormon, including a line about God having taken multiple wives, in a bid to undermine Romney through blackening his faith.>

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Poor Mittens!
:sarcasm:

Glad you posted more from the article--it was hard to choose and conform to the 4 paragraph rule.