South Carolina Primary

Obama Tells SC: Don't Take Polls For Granted

Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


After a combative debate, Barack Obama stopped by a debate watching party at "Broadway Louie's" sports bar in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Calling t...

Obama Takes on the Queen of Hearts

Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Marc Cooper

Obama finally blurted out what millions have been thinking. "I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes." And he's right. Thanks to Hillary, this Democratic primary has become all about Bill.

Liveblog! Realizing MLK's Dream On A South Carolina Stage

John Neffinger, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


John Neffinger, Glynnis MacNicol, and Rachel Sklar

Greetings and welcome to South Carolina, where these four candidates duked it out in the Dem debate. (The fourth? Bill Clinton, natch.)

Dems To Debate On MLK Day

CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

Hillary Endorsed By Harlem Minister

NY Times' The Caucus | C.J. Hughes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


On the eve of Martin Luther King Day, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton snagged an endorsement Sunday from Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, the influential pasto...

Clyburn: Clinton Attacks Will Toughen Obama

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


"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.... ...

Democrats to Address King Day Rally

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

Thomas B. Edsall

McCain Scores Narrow But Crucial Victory In South Carolina

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Columbia, S.C. -- Senator John McCain regained the lead in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination today by winning the South Carolina ...

McCain Wins Key South Carolina Primary

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. John McCain won a hard-fought South Carolina primary Saturday night, avenging a bitter personal defeat in a bastion of conservatism and gaining g...

SC Outcome Will Determine If Thompson Campaign Has A Future

Washington Post | Dan Balz and Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Time is running out for former senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee to make a statement in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Once ...

Jason Linkins

Bush AIDS Record Burnished At Thompson's Expense

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


An op-ed column in this morning's Washington Post savages Fred Thompson for his position on the AIDS crisis in Africa, labelling him a "callous conser...

Thomas B. Edsall

Huckabee Embraces Confederate Flag To Woo White Evangelicals

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Columbia, S. Car. -- The populist campaign of Mike Huckabee, seeking to mobilize an insurgency of white evangelicals against the Republican establishm...

Southern Blacks Are Split Over Obama And Clinton

New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The People's Voice African-American Weekly News in tiny Roanoke, Ala., has not endorsed a candidate in the state's Democratic presidential primary on ...

SC And NV's Wealthiest And Whitest Flood Campaign Coffers

Nancy Watzman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Nancy Watzman

Adam Smith and Katie Schlieper contributed to this piece. With campaign rhetoric turning to race, and all eyes on the South Carolina and Nevada prima...

Max Follmer

Clinton And Obama Turn Up The Heat In California

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Just three days before the Nevada caucuses that will provide the next big test in the race for the Democratic nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama i...

South Carolina: Sweet Potato Politics

Oneforthetable.com | Julia Fowler | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


I arrived at the Charlotte, NC airport two days before Christmas and found myself immediately stressed out because I knew it was going to take forever...

Reversing The Curse: Largest Paper In SC Endorses McCain

AP via Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


South Carolina's largest newspaper on Saturday endorsed John McCain in the state's Republican primary. The State's editorial board wrote on the newsp...

Clinton Camp's Attacks On Obama "Painful" For Many Black Voters

The State | WAYNE WASHINGTON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sharp criticism of Barack Obama and other comments about Martin Luther King Jr. -- all from people associated with Hillary Clinton's presidential camp...

South Carolina's GOP Governor Practically Endorses Obama

The State | Mark Sanford | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

Huckabee Counting On Evangelicals In SC

AP | ERIC GORSKI | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Propelled in Iowa by evangelicals' support, Mike Huckabee is trying for a repeat victory in South Carolina, where religion is woven even more tightly ...

Fox News Caves, Allows Ron Paul Into Debate

Myrtle Beach Sun News | Robert Morris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Following the New Hampshire primary, six Republican candidates will attend Thursday night's debate in Myrtle Beach, state party officials said today. ...

Obama Campaign Rakes In the Dough After Iowa

The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign is raising contributions at the rate of $1 million a day so far this year, campaign manager David P...

The Weekly Standard's Latest Dewey Moment

Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Here's the cover for this week's issue of The Weekly Standard, excitingly available on newsstands now. Here, once again, we encounter the renowned ju...

Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears

Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Tears are now officially an issue in Campaign 2008. Obama's national campaign co-chair, Jesse Jackson, Jr., just went on MSNBC and appeared to qu...

Woman Who Made Clinton Cry Voted For Obama

Political Radar | Kate Snow and Jennifer Parker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The woman whose empathetic question -- "how do you do it?" -- sparked uncharacteristic emotion Monday from Sen. Hillary Clinton ended up voting for Se...