Senator Barack Obama won the South Carolina primary on Saturday. This victory of Obama proved that he has a potential to overcome the dirt thrown by Clinton’s campaign at him in the most confrontational week of the presidential contest so far. He was able to attract more voters across the racial lines even in a Southern state.

This victory however, may not be a decisive pattern as the turn out of large numbers of black voters made a dynamics that may not sustain the same growth across all the 22 states holding nominating contests on February 5.

Obama could attract almost 24% of the white voters, a little less than he did in the states of Iowa, and New Hampshire. It is a big question mark on whether the race will divide Democrat votes.

South Carolina results have left Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign facing a new set of questions. Her attack strategy is appeared to gone fruitless and the attack-dog role of former President Bill Clinton seemed to have backfired. Poll surveys indicate that most of the Democrats who considered Clinton’s role as important finally ended up favoring and voting for Obama due to the dirt-attack disliking.

Results however, clearly indicate that voters were much impressed with Obam’s mettle and this developed a common consensus that the Clinton’s were running an exclusive negative campaign.

Congressman James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, an influential black Democrat who remained neutral in the primary said, “If he ends up winning the nomination, he will definitely face an onslaught of attacks this fall, and he may look back on South Carolina as the place that toughened him up”.

Sounding as a candidate with a cause, Barack Obama said in his victory speech Saturday night that the fight for South Carolina produced not only a personal victory but also progress over the divisive politics of the past. He was having clear targets without mentioning any name.

The fight is becoming more fierce and now it is shifting in a big way towards a national competition with fast pace. Obama may be having bright chances to gain victories in the states of Georgia and Tennessee with the probable support of large swaths of black voters as it happened in South Carolina.

The scenario may not be the same in the liberal democrat states like the New York and California. It will be even more different with moderate democrats of Kansas. The diverse racial population will definitely not come out with the same turn outs, expect the political scientists.

Hillary Clinton, even after winning in her two nominating contests in New Hampshire and Nevada, is left with no choice but to change her campaign strategies. Voters in the South Carolina showed little interest in her campaigns. They were more concerned about the economy and not on other political mandates. She now needs a better cross-section made across both the black and white voters in coming contests.

On the lines of South Carolina, the voters may turn out in the same manner in the states of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee in favor of Barack Obama. More than 50% of the black South Carolina voters feel that the country is definitely ready for a black president. On the other hand only 25% of the white voters have such opinion. Contrary to this, almost 255 of the white voters also think that the country is definitely ready for a women president.

“Obama’s victory will leave him with some strong talking points — especially that he can continue to expand his voting base into a conservative Southern state,” said Professor Graham.

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