Obama runs away with a win in SOUTH CAROLINA

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IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU VOTE, LEARN HOW TO VOTE, AND KNOW WHAT YOUR VOTING FOR INSTEAD OF FOLLOWING SOMEONE ELSE'S PREDICTION. ITS GOING TO BE A TOUGH ONE BECAUSE I LIKE ALL THE UP AND COMING LEADERS THAT WANTS TO RUN OUR NATION. NEITHER ONE OF THESE GREAT LEADERS WILL BE A WRONG CHOICE. THEY ALL HAVE GOOD INTENTIONS FOR THIS COUNTRY AND WANT TO CLEAN UP THE HATE THAT OUR PAST LEADER DIDN'T DO SO WELL OF CLEARING UP.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - 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.
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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.

The victory was Obama's first since he won the kickoff Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3. Clinton, a New York senator and former first lady, scored an upset in the New Hampshire primary a few days later. They split the Nevada caucuses, she winning the turnout race, he gaining a one-delegate margin. In an historic race, she hopes to become the first woman to occupy the White House, and Obama is the strongest black contender in history.

The South Carolina primary marked the end of the first phase of the campaign for the Democratic nomination, a series of single-state contests that winnowed the field, conferred co-front-runner status on Clinton and Obama but had relatively few delegates at stake.

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Permalink Reply by B. Shug on February 13, 2008 at 7:56pm: Excellent article/s D!

It's refreshing to hear persons like ourselves discussing issues that are relevant to our present , future, and our youth future. While Hillary, I'm sure has good intentions for our nation, OBAMA REPRESENTS CHANGE!

History tells us Obama, as a young child, expressed interest in being President. Mr. Obama declared his goal of becoming president when he was in grade school in Indonesia more than 35 years ago.
In an interview with VOA's Indonesian Service, Obama's third-grade teacher said he wrote in a class assignment that he wanted to be president. The assignment was called, "What do you want to be when you grow up?

QUICK FACTS (cited:biography.com)
Born: August 4, 1961 (Hawaii)
Lives in: Chicago, Illinois
Zodiac Sign: Leo
Height: 6' 1" (1.87m)
Family: Married wife Michelle in 1992, 2 daughters Malia and Sasha
Parents: Barack Obama, Sr. (from Kenya) and Ann Dunham (from Kansas)
Religion: United Church of Christ
Drives a: Ford Escape hybrid, Chrysler 300C

Education:
- Graduated: Columbia University (1983) - Major: Political Science
- Law Degree from Harvard (1991) - Major: J.D. - Magna Cum Laude
- Attended: Occidental College
Career: U.S. Senator from Illinois sworn in January 4, 2005
Government Committees:
- Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
- Foreign Relations Committee
- Veterans Affairs Committee
- 2005 and 2006: served on the Environment and Public Works Committee

Books:
- Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995)
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006)
- It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina (2006)

Barack Obama is the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois and a Democratic candidate for president in 2008.

Barack's father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.

Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in World War II and marched across Europe in Patton's army. Dunham's mother went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved to Hawaii. (cited: biography.com)

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