black voters

South Carolina voters rejected the politics of division in a historic Democratic turnout. Despite the Clintons’ plan to put Obama in a black box, his strengths among white voters and independents helped him win a bi-racial landslide.

(For information on volunteering in the Triangle for the Obama campaign, visit the Triangle for Obama Meetup Group or contact Carolyn Cameron @ (919) 321-2665 / carolyn-cameron@hotmail.com.)

We ended up in Columbia, S.C. one weekend in December, volunteering at Obama’s South Carolina headquarters by canvassing and phonebanking likely voters. What we witnessed explains why the last obstacles to a tidal wave of support for Obama among black voters in South Carolina are now being swept away.