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Strong Black Vote Helps Obama in SC

Saturday, January 26, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Landslide margins among black voters fueled Barack Obama to

his win Saturday in South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary,

allowing him to overcome the edge that Hillary Rodham Clinton and John

Edwards had among whites.

As expected, blacks made up half the voters in Saturday's contest, by far

the biggest share in any presidential contest so far this year. As in

Nevada's Democratic contest last weekend, Obama won about eight in 10 of

their votes, with black men and women supporting the Illinois senator by

about that same margin, according to preliminary results from exit polls of

Democratic voters conducted Saturday for The Associated Press and the

networks.

Clinton and Edwards split the white vote about equally, with each getting

nearly four in 10 of their votes and Obama getting about a quarter. Obama

got more than a third of the white vote in the year's first contest in Iowa,

where nearly all the voters were white _ enough for him to win in that

state.

Highlighting the decisive role race seemed to play in Saturday's voting,

about eight in 10 of Obama's votes came from blacks. About six in 10 of

Clinton's, and nearly all of Edwards', came from whites.

Following a week of sharp attacks between the Obama and Clinton campaigns in

which race became a factor, Obama's relatively small share of white

supporters in South Carolina could raise questions about his ability to

attract those voters in the crucial Super Tuesday contests on Feb. 5, when

nearly half the country will vote.

Because of his heavy support from blacks, Obama negated the advantage

Clinton has enjoyed among women in most of this year's contests. He got more

than half the female vote, compared with about three in 10 supporting

Clinton, the New York senator.

But the gender breakdown was heavily affected by race. Though Obama won

eight in 10 votes of black females, Clinton led among white women, getting

about four in 10 of their votes, slightly more than Edwards and about double

Obama's share.

Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, led among white men, garnering

about four in 10 of their votes, with Clinton and Obama about equally

sharing the rest.

In a race featuring candidates who would be the country's first female or

first black president, about three-quarters of Democrats said they thought

the country was ready for either historic event to occur. And in a show of

general Democratic satisfaction with their choices, more than eight in 10

overall said they would be satisfied if Obama were the nominee, while about

three-quarters said the same about Clinton.

Bill Clinton's campaigning in the state _ in which he engaged in some of the

campaign's sharpest attacks on Obama _ was cited as an important factor by

nearly six in 10 voters, including about equal amounts of blacks and whites.

Overall, those who said it was important voted slightly in favor of Obama.

But blacks who said Bill Clinton's campaigning was important were about 10

times likelier to vote for his spouse than were blacks who said it was not

an important factor, suggesting that his effort helped her somewhat.

As has been the pattern in most of the Democratic contests this year, the

economy was cited as the most important issue facing the nation by far, with

about half naming it. About half of those voters backed Obama and about

three in 10 supported Clinton. Obama had an even bigger edge among voters

naming health care or the war in Iraq as the top problem.

In another replay of Democratic sentiment from other states' voting, about

half said they wanted a candidate who can bring change, making it the most

sought-after quality. And once again this was dominated by Obama, who has

made it the leading theme of his campaign, as he won three in four voters

who named it.

Obama and Edwards about evenly split the lead among voters who said they

wanted a candidate who feels empathy for people like them. Clinton, as she

has done in the past, won easily among those favoring experience, but they

were a small share of voters, fewer than one in five.

The preliminary results were from a poll conducted for AP and the television

networks by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International as Democratic

voters exited 35 sites in South Carolina. The poll interviewed 1,269

Democratic primary voters and had a margin of sampling error of plus or

minus 4 percentage points.