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Article: Obama's sweep in South Carolina sets up super Tuesday face-off; huge black turnout led to victory in first Southern test, but can momentum continue nationwide?(NATIONAL REPORT)(Hillary Clinton)(Barack Obama)
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- February 11, 2008
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Sen. Barack Obama's overwhelming victory in the South Carolina primary has set up a historic showdown against Sen. Hillary Clinton for Super Tuesday in the nation's largest-ever single-day primary. Black voters will again play a deciding role.
Voters in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia-all states with large Black populations-will show if Obama's domination in South Carolina will translate throughout the South. In that state's primary, he took more than 80 percent of the Black vote overall and half of the White vote under 30.
"I did not travel around this state over the last year and see a White South Carolina or a Black ...