81% Of Black SC Voters Chose Obama

FOX News exit polls in South Carolina showed that 77 percent of South Carolina voters said they think the country is ready to elect a black president and 76 percent said it is ready for a woman president. A large majority of voters said they’d be satisfied with either front-runner as the Democratic nominee.

But the race, in a lot of ways, did come down to race. No one asked directly, but if South Carolina voters based their decision on having the same skin color as the candidate, it would explain why 81 percent of black voters — who made up 53 percent of the electorate — chose Obama.

The polling also showed that 79 percent of black women who voted — 33 percent of the overall electorate — supported the Illinois senator over 19 percent who preferred the former first lady. Among white women, Clinton won by 44 percent to 34 percent for Edwards and 22 percent for Obama.

Notably, the public bickering between Obama and his opponent’s husband, Bill Clinton, may have hurt Hillary Clinton. Twenty-six percent of voters said Bill Clinton was very important in deciding their vote, and of those 46 percent backed Hillary Clinton and 43 percent Obama.

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