Just the Facts Ma'am

Just the Facts Ma'am: Sen. Barack Obama's South Carolina Victory Over Sen. Hillary Clinton

I will not be providing an editorial or commentary on the facts surrounding Sen. Barrack Obama's first place victory in the South Carolina Primary on yesterday. There are media pundits and bloggers who believe that Obama's victory in South Carolina means that he is now been declared the "black candidate" and accordingly cannot win the Democratic nomination or the general election in November. There is another school of thought that claims that Obama, in his land-slide victory against Sen. Hillary Clinton, has proven that he is a unifying candidate who can bring people of various backgrounds together. It's my opinion that the facts speak for themselves. Here they are:

Sen. Obama: 55% (295,091)
Sen. Clinton: 26% (141,128)
John Edwards: 18% (93,552)

Sen. Obama won 52% of the vote of young white voters age 18-35.

Sen. Obama won 27% of white male vote, compared to Clinton's 28% and Edwards' 45%.

In Greenville County, which has a higher average income and a more educated populace than the statewide average and which is 78 percent white, Obama won by a resounding 22 percentage points.

Sen. Obama's margin of victory over Sen. Clinton was 28 percentage points.

Total turnout for Democrats in their primary was greater than the turnout for the Republican primary in the state of South Carolina, which is one of the most loyal Republican in the nation.

Four years ago about 290,000 Democrats voted in the state's primary: Saturday Obama alone got more than that number of voters.

Sen. Obama received more votes thatn John McCain and Mike Huckabee combined (279,723).

With Sen. Obama in the race, the Democratic turnout was twice that of 2004 (532,000 to 280,000). http://http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22859254/?GT1=10755.