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Showing Original Post only (View all)Winners and losers from the South Carolina Democratic primary (Hillary Group) [View all]
Source: Washington Post by Aaron Blake
WINNERS
Hillary Clinton: No, this win was not unexpected, but it is still a win for Clinton and it appears to be an absolute drubbing. She has now won two straight states, and she is clearly the momentum candidate heading into Super Tuesday which is, after all, just three days away. The question from here is whether Clinton can begin to put the race away in short order or if Sanders can hang around somehow despite increasingly daunting delegate math. Thats a far different conversation than we were having after Clinton got blown out in the New Hampshire primary two and a half weeks ago.
Black voters: Eight years after South Carolina sent Barack Obama further on his way to becoming the first black president, black voters sent a message Saturday that was loud and clear: We aren't going anywhere. Early exit poll numbers suggest the black share of the electorate could hit a new record about 6 in 10 voters in Saturday's primary. That would exceed even the percentage in 2008, when the eventual first black president was on the ballot. That record turnout comes after a South Carolina campaign that was focused intently on wooing black voters even more so than in 2008. The combination of those two things mean black voters just asserted themselves as a real force in 2016.
Hillary Clinton: No, this win was not unexpected, but it is still a win for Clinton and it appears to be an absolute drubbing. She has now won two straight states, and she is clearly the momentum candidate heading into Super Tuesday which is, after all, just three days away. The question from here is whether Clinton can begin to put the race away in short order or if Sanders can hang around somehow despite increasingly daunting delegate math. Thats a far different conversation than we were having after Clinton got blown out in the New Hampshire primary two and a half weeks ago.
Black voters: Eight years after South Carolina sent Barack Obama further on his way to becoming the first black president, black voters sent a message Saturday that was loud and clear: We aren't going anywhere. Early exit poll numbers suggest the black share of the electorate could hit a new record about 6 in 10 voters in Saturday's primary. That would exceed even the percentage in 2008, when the eventual first black president was on the ballot. That record turnout comes after a South Carolina campaign that was focused intently on wooing black voters even more so than in 2008. The combination of those two things mean black voters just asserted themselves as a real force in 2016.
LOSERS
Bernie Sanders: We pretty much knew this wasn't going to be close, but it turned into a disaster for Sanders. Yes, it's one state, but Sanders had one task here: To beat expectations when it comes to black voters. He didn't do that -- at all. He lost their votes a whopping 87-13, according to the most recent exit polls. A while back, a top Sanders adviser mused that he could win South Carolina with 30 percent of the black vote; that proved to be a foolhardy goal. And it's not just that black voters like Clinton better; they didn't seem to trust Sanders either. Just 52 percent said they would trust Sanders to handle race relations. Nearly 9 in 10 said the same of Clinton.
*****
Young voters: At this rate, all future candidates might as well give up on trying to build a campaign around the support of young people. Despite tens of thousands of people showing up to Sanders rallies, and young people favoring him overwhelmingly so far, they just aren't showing up to vote like he needs them to. Fewer than 1 in 6 voters in South Carolina were under the age of the 30. And it follows a pattern of young people just not giving Sanders the turnout he needs. In fact, young voters were less of the electorate there than in any of the first three states
Bernie Sanders: We pretty much knew this wasn't going to be close, but it turned into a disaster for Sanders. Yes, it's one state, but Sanders had one task here: To beat expectations when it comes to black voters. He didn't do that -- at all. He lost their votes a whopping 87-13, according to the most recent exit polls. A while back, a top Sanders adviser mused that he could win South Carolina with 30 percent of the black vote; that proved to be a foolhardy goal. And it's not just that black voters like Clinton better; they didn't seem to trust Sanders either. Just 52 percent said they would trust Sanders to handle race relations. Nearly 9 in 10 said the same of Clinton.
*****
Young voters: At this rate, all future candidates might as well give up on trying to build a campaign around the support of young people. Despite tens of thousands of people showing up to Sanders rallies, and young people favoring him overwhelmingly so far, they just aren't showing up to vote like he needs them to. Fewer than 1 in 6 voters in South Carolina were under the age of the 30. And it follows a pattern of young people just not giving Sanders the turnout he needs. In fact, young voters were less of the electorate there than in any of the first three states
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Winners and losers from the South Carolina Democratic primary (Hillary Group) [View all]
yallerdawg
Feb 2016
OP
Yes, Hillary was handed a victory, thanks for the hard work and voters of SC.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#1
Sanders thinks he is building a movement. If young people are following him, but don't show up to
livetohike
Feb 2016
#2
Nike made that deal with Michael Jackson (who owned the song's rights at the time)
oberliner
Feb 2016
#19
Maybe Madeline Albright was right? Are these "rallies" a chance to hook up? If that's the case....
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2016
#24
I believe that was Gloria Steinem? Still, maybe the low turnout has everything to do with some
BlueCaliDem
Feb 2016
#29
And, stopbush and bravenak, Sheepshank, pnwmom, Mohraktah, DanTex..& the ones I haven't thought of..
Cha
Feb 2016
#11
Until they allow folks to Instagram their vote using their XBox controller ...
LannyDeVaney
Feb 2016
#12
"Fewer than 1 in 6 voters in South Carolina were under the age of the 30. And it follows a pattern".
misterhighwasted
Feb 2016
#26