Three big stories tonight.
First, Barack is poised to grab more than 50% of the vote. That’s huge, and especially since the exit polls suggest that the black/white turnout was roughly 52/48, not as big of a gap as expected.
Second, the exit polls also reveal that 60% of the turnout was female, making this the largest [...]

How can she be so transparently shameless?
From Hillary’s campaign…
Regardless of today’s outcome, the race quickly shifts to Florida, where hundreds of thousands of Democrats will turn out to vote on Tuesday.
Despite efforts by the Obama campaign to ignore Floridians, their voices will be heard loud and clear across the country, as the last state to [...]

Good news for Barack? Hillary? Edwards? The answer is all of them, because Democrats are coming out in force this primary season and that will bode well for the eventual nominee.
From The State:
Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today’s presidential primary, continuing a trend [...]

Zogby shows him getting closer and closer to Hillary over the past few days, with Obama leading by a pretty solid 13%.
From Zogby…
Clinton won 25% support, up one point from the day before but now just four points ahead of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who continued to increase support and now sits at [...]

Apparently the smear wasn’t worth the heat. Or it wasn’t polling well. Either way, you know they didn’t pull it because Hillary felt bad about smearing Barack. This is all out war now, and regardless of this one pull back it doesn’t look like it’ll be letting up any time soon.
From Wash Post:
GREENVILLE, S.C. — [...]

They will say anything to win.
From Wash Post:
DILLON, S.C., Jan. 23 — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama, in what some Democrats said is part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former president Bill Clinton.
The [...]

With Obama so far ahead in the polls in the Palmetto State, this unspoken move makes sense. The question now is: should Barack leave South Carolina now and start criss-crossing the country before Super Tuesday?
From Wash Post:
Clinton has been focused on California, New York, New Jersey and Arkansas since her defeat in the Iowa caucuses [...]

Looks like all the candidates played fast and loose with the facts, and FactCheck.org is on top of it…
Clinton falsely accused Obama of saying he “really liked the ideas of the Republicans” including private Social Security accounts and deficit spending. Not true. The entire 49-minute interview to which she refers contains no endorsement of private [...]

Yesterday, there was a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally outside of the State House in Columbia, SC. All three of the Democratic Presidential Candidates were there and each gave a speech. Accross the street from the rally, a group of confederate flag supporters were demonstrating their cause throughout the whole event. I spoke to [...]

He’s running 3rd in South Carolina today, and this is where he HAD to win. I don’t care what his campaign says below about finishing a strong 2nd. He had to win in order to get any major bump for the next contests.
Now his campaign hasn’t explicitly said he’s out, but they’re already making gestures [...]

Yesterday, Chuck Norris appeared with Mike Huckabee at Clemson University. It reminded me why YOU DONT F*CK WITH CHUCK!

Obama has Oprah, Edwards has Tim Robbins, Fred Thompson has The National Right To Life Committee… but Huckabee has Chuck Norris.
God help us all.

Yesterday I went to a Mitt Romney rally at the University of South Carolina. At the very beginning, the former Massachusetts governor/ champion of family values displayed his unbelievably cute baby grandson to the crowd.

Sorry for the sarcasm, its just my nature. Anyway, what do you think…was Governor Romney using the child as a [...]

Hello from South Carolina!! Yesterday I saw Fred Thompson at a BBQ restaraunt in Columbia named “Sticky Fingers”. (The sauce was amazing). Anyway, the former Senator from Tennessee explained why he is the “Clear Conservative Choice” and seemed pretty excited about the ribs. Towards the end of the appearance, he was a little annoyed by [...]

Michigan. South Carolina. Nevada. A lot will be decided this week, including whether or not Ron Paul can turn a good showing in Nevada into a media story. My prediction? Nope.
First, on Tuesday the 15th, there’s Michigan:
Arizona Sen. John McCain holds a slim lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney heading into the Republican primary [...]

Double digit leads are the name of the game this week for the junior Senator.
From Rasmussen:
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in South Carolina shows that Barack Obama has opened a double digit-lead over Hillary Clinton in the January 26th Primary Election. It’s Obama 42% Clinton 30%. John Edwards attracts 14% of the vote and [...]

A shift is happening, and with Hillary going negative the shift could be even more pronounced in the coming days.
From Rasmussen:
New York Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead over Illinois Senator Barack Obama in South Carolina’s Presidential Primary has disappeared. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the race shows Clinton with 36% of the vote while [...]