South Carolina: Obama and Big

South Carolina: Obama and Big

The exit poll numbers are massive, and Obama must be winning everything except old white voters. Massive black vote plus massive young white vote. Perhaps white backlash to black candidates is dying of old age. Or maybe young people are just looking at the candidates as CANDIDATES and not through an identity politics lens.

Speaking of backlash, Hillary's campaign gets some: South Carolina Exit Polls: Even Hillary Voters Say She Unfairly Attacked Obama.

This ought to give Obama significant momentum into does-it-count-or-not Florida on the way to Tsunami Tuesday. MSNBC is talking about Florida exclusively in Republican terms, so maybe they'll write it off on the Dem side. Hillary mentioned Florida in a concession statement, trying to shift focus. Maybe the Florida stuff yesterday came after a look at some bad internal polls? She's planning to speak after Obama and Edwards, so she gets last shot at spin.

Here's a Robert Novak tidbit: "Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an Obama administration." That third place isn't good when the rumors of second were out there...



Obama: "After four great contests..." take that, Michigan. And he namechecks Maytag. He's on tonight. "This election is about the past vs. the future." Nailed it. Tone was like a national convention speech.

Edwards gives the Edwards Speech, complete with "The Rising" at the end.

Hillary is basically trying to ignore it and doing the basic stump speech: back up to 45 minutes. She does manage to mention Florida, though.