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South Carolina Dem Primary Night

Polls close at 7:00.  Can the Lemon effect once again help Hillary outperform her double-digit polling deficit and snatch the top spot?  Or will native son John Edwards pick up enough of the Obama fake-outs to sneak into a second place finish and prolong his campaign's slow, twisting demise?  Or is the Obama polling advantage likely to be less superficial in a state with a 20-fold larger African American population that New Hampshire?

I won't be in blogland to post further on it this evening, so let's set you up with a couple links.

The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire offers a round-up of last-minute polling and predictions.

Hot Air's got an open thread going and ought to keep you well-updated throughout the evening.

And if the last few weeks are any guide, CNN's election center ought to have the best real-time returns data.

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Yikes:  Bill and Hill met with an unholy trouncing.  A margin of 28 points, with Obama more than doubling Hillary's vote total.  According to the exit polling, Clinton failed to capture a majority among any demographic and Obama did just as well among women as he did among men.  Cue to the next volley of campaign "shake-up" stories and brace for the exquisite anathema of the Clinton Machine dialing up to 11...

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South Carolina Dem Primary Night

Polls close at 7:00.  Can the Lemon effect once again help Hillary outperform her double-digit polling deficit and snatch the top spot?  Or will native son John Edwards pick up enough of the Obama fake-outs to sneak into a second place finish and prolong his campaign's slow, twisting demise?  Or is the Obama polling advantage likely to be less superficial in a state with a 20-fold larger African American population that New Hampshire?

I won't be in blogland to post further on it this evening, so let's set you up with a couple links.

The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire offers a round-up of last-minute polling and predictions.

Hot Air's got an open thread going and ought to keep you well-updated throughout the evening.

And if the last few weeks are any guide, CNN's election center ought to have the best real-time returns data.

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Yikes:  Bill and Hill met with an unholy trouncing.  A margin of 28 points, with Obama more than doubling Hillary's vote total.  According to the exit polling, Clinton failed to capture a majority among any demographic and Obama did just as well among women as he did among men.  Cue to the next volley of campaign "shake-up" stories and brace for the exquisite anathema of the Clinton Machine dialing up to 11...