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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.
Decades after the struggle against segregation, the racial issues are coming in prominence in US election politics. Barack Obama is fighting to prove that the United States is ready for a black president, observers say.
“The race card is on the table in this election and it is not coming off,” writes ‘Politico’, the US political news website.
Hillary Clinton now feels that both the Democratic campaigns of her and barrack Obama must have a focus on concerning issues and there is no point in fighting with each other. She was referring the feeling of the former President Bill Clinton who was quoted saying that he might have gone too far in attacking Barack Obama.
Addressing and participating in the “Early Show” at CBC she was expressing the feelings of the former President.“He said several times yesterday that maybe he got a little bit carried away”, said Hillary Clinton.
