COLUMBIA, S.C. – AP- [1] Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina was running third, a sharp setback in the state where he was born and scored a primary victory in his first presidential campaign four years ago.About half the voters were black, according to polling place interviews, and four out of five of them supported Obama. Black women turned out in particularly large numbers. Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, got a quarter of the white vote while Clinton and Edwards split the rest.
Fox is calling it a rout. [2] They report at this writing that Obama got 51% of the vote, and Hillary Clinton got 29%. Edwards got 20% That’s with 7% reporting. I’ll be interested in seeing the rest of the state.