Barack Obama took S. Carolina by an extremely wide margin Saturday. Looking at the breakdown, we see that Obama ate his competitors' lunches. Obama took 57% and Clinton had 29%, with John Edwards a distant third at 13%. It was an electoral bloodbath. It's widely reported that Barack and Hillary both now have two wins under their belts, but when you look at the actual delegate count, Clinton has yet to win a contest. Her two popular vote wins -- New Hampshire and Nevada -- were respectively a tie and a loss in terms of delegates. When looking at the numbers that matter most, Clinton still hasn't had a single primary win.Which puts the momentum behind Obama, who isn't losing any time capitalizing on it. Depending on when you read this, Sen. Ted Kennedy either will or has endorsed Obama. Kennedy's endorsement adds dem leadership to the Obama camp, which earlier scored a big win with Sen. John Kerry's endorsement -- which assumedly comes with the "Golden Rolodex" of fundraising contacts from Kerry's '04 run.
Although Associated Press has found that it's mathematically impossible for anyone to claim the nomination even after Super Tuesday, you could argue that -- at this point in time, at least -- the primaries are Obama's to lose. The man is on a roll.
That's not stopping some from making stupid, dishonest, and -- frankly -- unamerican arguments against his candidacy. It's well-documented that there's a BS email campaign out there to convince voters that Barack Obama -- make that Barack HUSSEIN Obama -- is a radical Muslim terrorist. It seems unlikely to convince Democrats -- it's the sort of braindead crap that only those who would fall for creationism would buy. Which means Republicans. Not that it hasn't been tried by dem ops (Clinton's campaign has been tied to the rumor. Although it doesn't seem to be part of the Clinton strategy), but it seems so reactionary and ill-informed that I can't see anyone who practices critical thinking going for it...
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