(For information on volunteering in North Carolina for the Obama campaign, visit the Triangle for Obama Meetup Group (www.barackobama.meetup.com/173) or contact Carolyn Cameron @ (919) 321-2665 / carolyn-cameron@hotmail.com.)
South Carolina voters rejected the politics of division in a historic Democratic turnout. Despite the Clintons’ plan to put Obama in a black box, his strengths among white voters and independents helped him win a bi-racial landslide.
Facing a loss in South Carolina, the Clintons did their best to spring a trap on Barack Obama. Their game plan was to lower expectations for Hillary, while making an Obama victory appear meaningless. As an unnamed top Clinton adviser admitted to the Associated Press, they would paint Obama as “the black candidate” in a state where African-American voters were 47% of the Democratic primary electorate in 2004.
