11:16PM
That's all for tonight.
Jesse Jackson, Mr. President?
Seriously?
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10:57PM
Unless I horribly misunderstood Pat Buchanan, he delivered the most awful quote of the night (next to President Clinton's):
Senator Obama will have trouble winning California partly because "there's a war in the prisons."
Huh-what?
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10:51PM
Republicans in South Carolina:
McCain: 147,283
Huckabee: 132,440
Total: 279,723
Obama in South Carolina: 291,000
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10:29PM
I'm gonna have a martini. Cheers.
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10:02PM
Finally got around to watching this:
Someday, I hope Senator Clinton will run on her own. I hope it's soon because President Clinton is destroying his reputation here.
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9:58PM
Carl Bernstein on CNN, "One of the worst nights of Hillary Clinton's life. She had a chance at the end of the evening to be magnanimous, to say something about where her campaign is gonna go. Instead she was shop-worn. Tired."
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9:47PM
Senator Clinton making with the talking from Memphis. It's her standard stump speech.
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9:46PM
That freakish half-alien, half-Ripley creature from the end of Alien: Resurrection is on FOX News right now. Correction, that would be Susan Estrich.
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9:34PM
The next attorney general making with the talking now.
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9:28PM
Scarborough saying that every time Obama speaks, his Blackberry goes off -- from conservative Republicans who admit "we believe." To assuage the skepticism of my fellow progressives, this doesn't mean that Obama would capitulate to Republicans. Much to the contrary. Senator Obama's energy brings Republicans to Obama. Not the other way around. Obama's political opponents from Chicago and Illinois have admitted to this.
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9:22PM
Obama and his co-speech writer, Jon Favreau (not that one), knocked this one out of the goddamn park. This is one of the best political speeches I've ever heard -- live, at least.
"Out of many, we are one." Goddamn.
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9:18PM
No way of knowing for sure, but I think Obama is quoting Gandhi tonight with "the change we seek." And the Gandhi quote: "We must become the change we seek." There are also some echoes of JFK's "the peace we seek."
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9:15PM
Spontaneous chants of "yes we can."
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9:11PM
Obama on the other candidates: "fierce competitors worthy of our respect and admiration."
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9PM
Senator Obama getting ready to make with the talking.
Obama 55
Clinton 26
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8:52PM
Caroline Kennedy endorses Senator Obama: A President Like My Father
8:47PM
Christ is on MSNBC endorsing Saint McCain. This sucks for Huckabee who's all about Jesus-- Wait. Strike that. That's CRIST endorsing McCain. Governor Crist of Floriduh.
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8:45PM
15 minutes until Senator Obama's speech. All of the networks are reporting that he has more than double the votes of Senator Clinton. 205,000 to 102,000.
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8:35PM
Pat Buchanan on MSNBC downplaying Senator Obama's victory. "Why is Bill Clinton smiling tonight?!" Buchanan thinks Obama lost the white vote even though everyone else is telling him that Obama won the white male vote and -- hmm -- only lost the white female vote. Buchanan is drunk.
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8:30PM
On CNN... Beaufort County, "the most affluent county in South Carolina," Senator Obama wins with 54 percent.
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8:06PM
Olbermann just read a statement from the Clinton campaign which mentioned something to the effect of "on to Florida". That's weird because I thought the DNC imposed a ban on campaigning in Florida -- and stripped Florida of its delegates. Did I miss something?
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7:57PM
The results have been locked in with numbers like these for the last half hour:
Obama 50
Clinton 29
Edwards 18
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7:18PM
Check out the live coverage at Brave New Films. Hosted by Cenk and Robert Greenwald.
7:20 Anthony Palmer, The 7-10
7:40 Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Multiplicative Identity
8:00 Kristina Wilfore, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
8:20 Oliver Willis, OliverWillis.com
8:40 Zack Exley, Revolution in Jesusland
9:00 Andrew Rasiej, Personal Democracy Forum
9:10 John Amato, Crooks & Liars
9:30 Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend
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7:15PM
MSNBC:
Obama 70
Clinton 18
Edwards 12
That's... wow. Russert said that SC polls three months ago showed Clinton 45, Obama 30.
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7:11PM
Just got back from watching There Will Be Blood. So down to... the landslide.
With zero -- ZERO -- precincts reporting, MSNBC projects Senator Obama winning South Carolina "by a substantial margin." In addition to getting 81 percent of the black vote, Noron O'Donnell reported that he received 24 percent of the white vote. That's double what the polls said he would get.