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South Carolina
By: Mr. Jones

The South Carolina **Democratic Primaries** were held on January 26th, 2008. Only Democrats voted in this election; the Republicans voted a week earlier on January 19th. In South Carolina, there are "**2,495,750** total registered voters" (CNNpolitics.com).

(From [|http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#SC]) Updated 10:11 p.m. EDT, Jan 26, 2008
 * [[image:http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/ELECTION/2008/primaries/images/common/icon_democrat.gif]]DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY** **January 26, 2008**
 * Race || Status || Candidate || Votes || Vote % || Del* || Precincts ||
 * **South Carolina**

[|**County Results**][|**Exit Poll**] || || [|**Obama**] || 295,091 || **55%** || **25** || || **99%** reporting || || Even though Kucinich is shown in these results for CNN, according to [|The Washington Post] Kucinich dropped out of the race on Friday, the day before the primaries in South Carolina. media type="youtube" key="zeaArSM7-kU&rel=1" height="355" width="425"
 * ||  || [|**Clinton**] || 141,128 || **27%** || **12** ||
 * ||  || [|**Edwards**] || 93,552 || **18%** || **8** ||
 * ||  || [|**Kucinich**] || 551 || **0%** || **0** ||

media type="custom" key="450015"(picture from CNN.com [|http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#SC)] This picture shows that women don't just vote for women. Hilary Clinton is a woman, but Obama still won the primary, even though more women voted than men.

media type="custom" key="450055"(pictures from CNN.com [|http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#SC]) media type="custom" key="450075" This shows that most people who voted in this election were between the ages of 45 and 59. That means that most people who voted probably have kids who could be up to about 20 years old. This picture also shows that 14% of the voters were age 18-29. That is more than the 10% of Republican voters who were 18-29. However, the Republicans had progressively more voters as they got older, whereas the Democratic voters dropped off as they got older.

Interesting Tidbits
According to CNN.com South Carolina lost 23 of its 47 Republican delegates for choosing delegates outside of the timeframe that the Republican National Committee approved. This means that they don't get as many delegates as usual. Delegates are people who vote for the one person to represent each party at the national conventions held in August and September.

This is the victory speech by Barack Obama who won the South Carolina Primaries. (It is 17 minutes long!) media type="youtube" key="-iVAPH_EcmQ&rel=1" height="355" width="425"

This four-minute video is an analysis of the victory of Barack Obama in South Carolina media type="youtube" key="LFXW2XBTnWI&rel=1" height="355" width="425"