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8:05 PM ET, January 26, 2008

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Associated Press:
Early highlights from South Carolina Democratic exit poll  —  Some highlights of preliminary data from exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks in the South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday:  —  IT'S THE ECONOMY, AGAIN  —  Given three choices …
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Associated Press:
Obama runs away with SC primary  —  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.
Los Angeles Times:
Is the right right on the Clintons?  —  Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.  —  Something strange happened the other day.  All these different people — friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read — kept saying the same thing …
John O'Connor / The State:
Signs pointing to record turnout  —  If voters surge, party could share winner's momentum  —  Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today's presidential primary, continuing a trend seen in other early-voting states.
CBS News:
Barack Obama Wins South Carolina Primary  —  CBS News Projects That Obama Has Defeated Clinton And Edwards In Prelude To Super Tuesday  —  (CBS/AP) CBS News estimates that Democratic Sen. Barack Obama will win the South Carolina Democratic primary.  —  Obama reached out for victory …
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Large Turnout Among Blacks, Women in S.C.  —  Two Heavily Courted Groups Turnout in Large Numbers for State's Democratic Primary  —  Two groups that have been heavily courted in the run-up to today's South Carolina Democratic primary — women and African-Americans — turned out in large numbers today.
Jennifer Parker / ABCNEWS:
Barack Obama Wins South Carolina Primary  —  Record African-American Turnout Carries Sen. Barack Obama to Victory in S.C.  —  Sen. Barack Obama, vying to become the nation's first black president, has won the South Carolina primary today, ABC News projects, boosted by record turnout …
Discussion: You Decide 08!
CNN:
Exit polls: Bill Clinton's effect  —  (CNN) — Bill Clinton's aggressive campaigning in South Carolina in the days leading up to the state's primary may have had a net negative effect among South Carolina's Democratic primary voters, CNN exit polls indicate.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and MSNBC
Mark Halperin / The Page:
Clinton Camp Memo on South Carolina, Florida, Feb. 5 States  —  To: Interested Parties  —  From: Howard Wolfson, Communications Director Re: South Carolina, Florida, and February 5  —  The Obama campaign has been so confident of winning South Carolina that six months ago they flatly predicted victory in the Palmetto State.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
Questions for the Clintons  —  Charleston, S.C.  —  Joseph P. Riley Jr. has been mayor of this historic and often tense city since the mid-1970s.  He's a Democrat, highly respected and has worked diligently to heal racial wounds that have festered in some cases for hundreds of years.
Rick Klein / Political Radar:
Live-Blogging S.C. Democratic Primary Results by Rick Klein  —  7:21 pm: The battle for second does become key here.  If Sen. Clinton comes in third (like she did in Iowa) that will be a shocker.  And it gets John Edwards back in the conversation, though perhaps not fully in the race.
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
BILL: ‘MY MESSAGE’ 99.9% POSITIVE
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Spinning South Carolina, II
Discussion: TownHall Blog, Donklephant and MyDD
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
It's no-win for Barack
Discussion: JustOneMinute
John Whitesides / Reuters:
Obama leads in South Carolina; McCain up in Florida: poll
Discussion: Political Machine
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Big Night in S.C.
Discussion: Firedoglake and New York Times
Amy Chozick / Wall Street Journal:
To Truly Win in Carolina, Obama Needs Large Margin
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
McCain: Romney Favored Iraq Withdrawal  —  SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — John McCain accused Mitt Romney of wanting to withdraw troops from Iraq, drawing immediate protest from his Republican presidential rival who said: “That's simply wrong and it's dishonest, and he should apologize.”
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Michael Scherer / TIME: Swampland:
McCain's Conversation Changer: A Misleading Low Blow
Discussion: The Corner
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
THE PROBLEM WITH BILL 2.0  —  I've been trying for several days now to sort out my reactions to the increasingly bitter turn of the Democratic nomination race.  So let share with you my thoughts about where we are.  —  As I told you at the time, I thought most of the charges that the Clintons …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Middle Earth Journal
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Surge in Early Balloting Shifts Florida Races  —  BOCA RATON, Fla. — A surge of early voting by Florida Democrats and Republicans has startled officials here and injected additional complexity into the state's presidential primaries on Tuesday.  —  Democratic candidates are not overtly campaigning …
CBS News:
“Clean” Movie Maven Arrested For Teen Sex  —  Utah Man Who Sold R-Rated Films Shorn Of Skin Arrested For Sex With 14-Year-Old Girls  —  (CBS) A Utah retailer of family-friendly tapes and DVDs - Hollywood films with the “dirty parts” cut out of them - has been arrested for trading sex with two 14-year-old girls.
Discussion: Cliff Schecter
 
 
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