Obama Takes SC in a Landslide – The Dem Soap Opera Continues Thanks to CNN

Illinois Senator Barack Obama won the South Carolina Democrat Primary in a landslide defeating Senator Hillary Clinton (D NY) and former Senator John Edwards (D NC) 55% to 27% and 18% respectively. This victory in South Carolina narrows the gap between Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama in the hunt for delegates.

With 2,025 delegates at stake in this race, there seems to be some discrepancy in the current count. According to ABC News Clinton leads Obama the delegate count 222 to 179 while CNN has the count 230-152. Both have Clinton leading the race, but the question is, by how much?

One explanation could be that CNN is using projected delegate counts in races that haven’t been conducted yet. For instance, Illinois is a Super Tuesday race but yet CNN has 20 delegates awarded to Barack Obama. They are also awarding 39 delegates for Clinton in New York another Super Tuesday event.

Both news agencies are Democrat friendly and both have been especially gracious to Sen. Clinton and Slick Billy Bob Bubba traditionally. Could this have anything to do with the discrepancy? Possibly.

The discrepancy lies in the allocation of delegates by state. In South Carolina alone there is a major difference. ABC is awarding Barack Obama 25 delegates, Hillary Clinton 12 delegates. and John Edwards 8. CNN on the other hand is awarding Obama 26, Clinton 14, and Edwards 8. Which leads me to believe that if nothing changes and the candidates continue to split states as they are, the Democrat Nomination may be just as big a question going into the Convention as the GOP may be. If not bigger.

It won’t be long before The Breck Girl John Edwards drops out of the race. That shark will drop out due to a deal made with one of the two camps. Speculation by Robert Novak, former CNN analyst and Syndicated columnist this weekend suggests that Edwards may drop in favor of being Obama’s designee for Attorney General of the United States should he win the White House in November.

According to Novak…

Illinois Democrats close to Sen. Barack Obama are quietly passing the word that John Edwards will be named attorney general in an Obama administration.

This begs a question about both the Obama and Clinton camps. Who will the candidates select as a running mate if Novak’s sources are correct? It was widely thought that Edwards may end up as the second seater to the eventual Nominee but he has gone out on a limb to tear down Clinton. It also begs the question, if Edwards would be the AG designee under a hypothetical President Elect Barack Obama, why then would Edwards team up with Clinton the other night in the debate against Obama? The Democrat scorecard is reading like a daytime soap opera. Who is in bed with who?

According to Rasmussen Reports, the breakdown of the South Carolina Primary is as follows (according to exit polling of course).

Among…

Africa-Americans – “Obama defeated Hillary Clinton 80% to 18% among African-Americans (the final Rasmussen Reports poll of the race showed Obama leading 68% to 16% among African-Americans).”

Whites – “John Edwards and Clinton each attracted 38% of white voters in South Carolina while Obama picked up 24%.”

“Among white male voters, Clinton was especially weak and picked up just 29% of that vote. Obama earned the votes from 27% of white males while John Edwards won 44%.”

“Clinton did best among white women, winning 44% of their votes. However, just 17% of African-American women supported the former First Lady.”

Seniors – “Clinton also won among senior citizens leading Obama 40% to 32%. Obama picked up a majority of all voters under 65 and defeated Clinton by a more than two-to-one margin.”

“Obama won among all income, ideological, and education groups.”

Part of this soap opera is the CNN polling. It could artificially keep Edwards in the race longer than he should be. All the Dem candidates put misplaced stock in CNN and they could take the projections made by CNN as gospel. We all know that at this stage of the game John Edwards has about as much chance to be the Democrat Nominee as Ron Paul does on the GOP side. But it is possible that he may be sticking around to see which camp plays out and which camp will see him as the bigger help. He may be attempting to trade up from AG to VP.

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