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Obama Tops South Carolina Republican Senators In Poll, Despite Losing State In 2008

McClatchy | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama's job approval may be eroding nationwide, but in South Carolina, a state he lost in 2008, a new poll gives him higher numbers t...

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South Carolina GOP Targets Local Dem Candidates with Obama Mailer

Susan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Several local Democratic candidates in South Carolina have been targeted by the state's GOP caucus, which is aiming to gain ground here by tying the D...

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Chuck Todd: African-American Turnout Putting Deep Red States In Play (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Appearing on Meet the Press, NBC's Chuck Todd noted that early voting is "through the roof," and that turnout is threatening John McCain even in state...

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Obama Grassroots Snapshot: South Carolina

Grayson Daughters | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Our effort is to reach out and make contact with those people who will support Barack Obama as their canidate. We're not concerned with what the other parties are doing -- on the volunteer level, that's really not on us."

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Polls Show Close Race In North And South Carolina

Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new set of polls from the Carolinas show that both of these states could be close this Fall, despite the fact that neither has voted Democratic sinc...

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Obama Setting Up Shop In GOP Stronghold South Carolina

The State | Posted 05.25.2011

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A team of paid staffers for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama will be dispatched to the Palmetto State in coming weeks. Obama's campaign i...

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Obama Camp Sets Up In South Carolina

R.T. Eby | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to a spokesman, "the campaign is looking forward to expanding the battleground. Obama for America is showing the country that we mean business."

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Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carrie Budoff Brown noticed a rather off-message echo in Obama's stump speech last week, and writes that Obama added to his stump speech in South Caro...

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South Carolina Primary Preview: Edwards Threatening Clinton For Second

The State | RODDIE A. BURRIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Watch John Edwards. With only a day left before Saturday's S.C. Democratic presidential primary, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina and S.C....

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Obama Won More Votes Than McCain And Huckabee Combined

The Daily Dish | Andrew Sullivan | Posted 05.25.2011

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That's a staggering fact, as a reader reminds me: In last week's SC GOP primary, McCain and Huckabee (the top 2 finishers), got 147,283 and 132,4...

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This Now Becomes A Real Delegate Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama's landslide 28-point win in South Carolina - 55.4 percent to Hillary Clinton's 26.5 percent and John Edwards' 17.6 percent - establishes ...

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Clinton Pulls Misleading SC Ad

Washington Post's The Trail | Anne Kornblut | Posted 05.25.2011

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Under fire for airing misleading attacks on Sen. Barack Obama, the Clinton campaign has pulled a radio ad that quoted the Illinois senator calling Rep...

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Early Polls Show Rough Super Tuesday For Obama

Wall Street Journal | CHRISTOPHER COOPER and AMY CHOZICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama's overwhelming weekend victory in South Carolina's Democratic primary gives him new momentum in the run-up to the near-national nominatin...

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Candidates Gear Up For South Carolina Primary

New York Times | Julie Bosman | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Democrats headed on Friday toward the finish line of their first primary in the South, the candidates spent the day trying to widen their appeal to...

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Barack Obama's South Carolina Victory Speech

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Watch Barack Obama's victory speech in South Carolina: ...

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Obama Warns SC Voters Of "Hoodwinking," "Bamboozling," And "Okey Doke"

Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., warned a Sumter, South Carolina crowd against the "hoodwinking," "bamboozling" and "okey doke" by people in other campaigns...

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Clyburn To Bill Clinton: "Chill" On Obama

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bitter back-and-forth between former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama has led a prominent black lawmaker to tell the former president ...

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Video Shows ABC Distorted Obama's "Testy Exchange" With Reporter

Horse's Mouth | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Okay, this is really a bad one. Late yesterday, ABC News posted a story called: "Is Bill Clinton getting in Obama's head?" The piece reported that Ob...

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Clyburn: Clinton Attacks Will Toughen Obama

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.25.2011

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"I'm like everybody else, I'm torn," South Carolina Democrat Jim Clyburn says of his presidential choices in the primary coming up this Saturday.... ...

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What's Behind Obama's "Committed Christian" Mailer?

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama camp has a new South Carolina mailer touting him as a "committed Christian" who has been "called to Christ." (TPM Election Central has the f...

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Obama Endorsed By Largest Paper In South Carolina

The State | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Democratic primary in South Carolina this year offers voters an unusual choice. Earlier votes have winnowed out the most experienced candidates, l...

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Democrats to Address King Day Rally

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Three of the Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination speak today at a Martin Luther King Day rally at the South...

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Dems To Debate On MLK Day

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The top three Democratic presidential candidates face off in a Monday night debate in South Carolina, with the hearts and minds of African-American vo...

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Bombs Away: Democratic Race Becomes War Of Invective

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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The dramatic escalation of hostilities Sunday in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination suggests that Senator Hillary Clinton and her st...

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South Carolina's GOP Governor Practically Endorses Obama

The State | Mark Sanford | Posted 05.25.2011

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I won't be voting for Barack Obama for president. There are too many vital issues -- from taxes and spending, to immigration and national security, to...

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