Zogby Daily Tracking in South Carolina

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Obama     43    46    39     32  
Clinton   28    26    22     25      
Edwards   15    11    19     27

Saw this on a diary over at MyDD.

Take a look at that Edwards surge and that Obama collapse...   Clinton dipped but then seems to have gotten some of the Obama scraps that didn't go to Edwards on the last day.

"I was not aware that I voted no" would become a mantra, like "I supported it before I opposed it" or "it depends on what the meaning of is is."

So unfair. Everybody hates the Clintons for no good reason. Boo hoo.

Big Tent. Have you noticed that your reportage keeps driving people from the tent? I didn't think so. You don't even pretend to write about political positions of the candidates anymore.

Even at Dkos.

Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics. We have to build a constituency, and you don't--and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.

And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we've got growing child poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what happens to the poor when the economy is not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap between rich and poor widening. We have what I consider one of--a growing national catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline. A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who's born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities. Many children are sitting up--15,000, according to a recent congressional GAO study--are sitting up in juvenile institutions solely because their parents could not get mental health and healthcare in their community. This is an abomination.

Anyway, the quote:

Although Obama didn't start it, he does openly play the hatred card when he turns to attacking the Clintons as an entity instead of responding to their attacks.

As admirers of MLK, Gandhi and Mandella we should fight such hatred; in particular we should read the riot act to the Koses, Joshes, Matts and the Ezras.

Enough is enough.

The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is hitting back hard -- quite harshly, in fact -- against the misleading radio ad from Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., (LINK), which feeds into a pattern by the Clintons of misrepresenting comments he made in an editorial board meeting in Reno, Nev., about Republicans.

They are playing it masterfully. Starting with the MLK reference, in which Hillary basically claimed that she is the presidential-level politician, and Obama is akin to the civil-rights inspired leader (read - a guy interested in racial issues, not the full spectrum of presidential issues).

And continuing constantly, ending with Bill's outrageous characterization of the race in SC as one where the blacks will all vote for the black, so we might not win.

They are making progress in redefining Obama from the presidential candidate who happens to be black to the black candidate. Because that is a frame in which they win.