EXIT POLL: HALF OF VOTERS SAID BILL CLINTON CAMPAIGNING WAS VERY IMPORTANT IN THEIR CHOICE

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Interviews with voters as they left their polling places indicated about half the electorate was black.

Half the voters said 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.

Roughly half the voters said former President Clinton's campaigning for his wife was very important to their choice.

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

I think more people are not turned off of Bill, than still like him

I guess we will see.

This could go either way.

Many people were kicked off the Medicaid/TANF/Food Stamps rolls during the Clinton era.

It may not be a good thing that he was considered in their choice.

Put a kibosh on both Peace and Prosperity.

Unfortunately.

Lord, what an assumption.

and other southern states are deeply affected by poverty. It's not an assumption. It's a fact.

our primary. I read Dorchester county - Republican - has a higher turnout this week than last.

take a much closer look at Obama. I vote on February 5th and until recently I was solidly for Edwards. I voted for Bill Clinton, once, and while I never regretted that vote I never really liked him.

I still like Edwards but I want the Clintons to go away so badly I may switch to Obama.

So, in a sense, Bill Clinton's campaigning for his wife has become very important to my choice too.

i planned on voting for edwards but it looks like the maryland primary may be where I switch my support to obama.

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We don't know if Bill made them vote for Obama or Hillary. Or Edwards.

I hate this stupid poll.

The black vote might be very significant after all in that it could signal a change in how Black America views the Clintons. If Blacks stay home in the General, Dems are screwed.

However, I appreciate the unveiled threat. Is this a sample of how Obama plans to govern? By manipulating the black population to boycott (or riot) on request? Does he HAVE that much power? How would he obtain it without a blatant appeal to race?

But continue to plot and plan...while you wait to see if Obama can get more than single digits from the white voters his campaign has so carefully segregated.

And what is this about "manipulating" and "or riot"?

And it isn't even so much about Obama. Browsing black blogs shows a growing disgust with a Clinton campaign. There are many who say they will write in a candidate, not vote Dem for president, or stay home if Hillary is the nominee. They aren't saying the same thing about Edwards.

Don't turn it into "Obama or else" because it isn't. It's more like "Anyone but Hillary."

I HAVE BEEN DEEPLY INVOLVED WITH BLACKS IN THE SOUTH FOR YEARS,THERE IS A GREAT DIVIDE NOW BETWEEN BLACKS AND THEIR "LEADERS".THE LEADERS AND THOSE TIED TO THE CLINTON'S WILL STAY WITH THEM IN A MUCH HIGHER PERCENTAGE THAN THE COMMON PEOPLE.DID YOU SEE THE INTERVIEW WITH THE BLACK WOMEN IN THE HAIR SALON IN LOS ANGELES ON BILL MAHER LAST NIGHT,THEY ALL FOR OBAMA 100%,THIS IN ANECDOTAL BUT BELIEVE IT MEANS SOMETHING

Whoever the nominee is will get a huge number and percentage of black voters.

His Clintonian DLC sorely underestimate the INSIGHT of the American Electorate, even those "good ole boys" down south and their "dark skinned" neighbors KNOW Southern Strategy *code* when they hear it. :thumbsdown:

I've lost all respect for Bill Clinton. He's devolved into a grasping, clingy shell of the once "somewhat honorable" man he was as President.

More and more within The Democratic Party would like the "Big Dawg" to STFU already. :shrug:

of the Southern Strategy of "divide and conquer" via racism.

Bill Clinton's red faced ANGRY tirades and direct attacks on Obama were shameless and his (and HRC's) use of terminology was, to say the least ... suspect - all in an effort to "tangentially" fire-up whites who may be consciously or unconsciously racist. Bill Clinton's behavior in The South has been deplorable and The American People are NOW waking up to his charade. :thumbsdown:

On Edit: I know extremism as an immediate member of my family was formally asked to join "The Birch Society" when I was a young girl. BUT damned if I did not continue to *despise* that "states rights" and "anti-goverment" bat shit crazy blather. Hillary did embrace Goldwater Conservatism and later was elected to The Presidency of her Young Republican college organization. There's your great example of a DLC Democrat in action. :shrug:

Because this is utter crap.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. What will win out: Nostalgia for the 90s or more recent statements?

where..? Blacks? Whites? Sc? MSM? do you have a link? Obama has been attacking Hillary from the beginning!