South Carolina Democrats vote
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - South Carolina Democrats cast votes on Saturday in a bitter presidential nominating race, with Barack Obama leading rival Hillary Clinton in polls and counting on heavy black support to carry him to a needed victory.
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Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama and Republican Fred Thompson were the frontrunners in South Carolina&#39;s first-in-the-South 2008 presidential primary, according to a poll Sunday.
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In South Carolina, a state where religion counts for Democrats, it's not unusual for community leaders to have two titles Â Rev. and Rep.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Democrat Barack Obama holds a double-digit lead on rival Hillary Clinton three days before South Carolina's presidential primary, aided by a huge edge among black voters, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Senator Barack Obama won the South Carolina Democratic primary, claiming a crucial victory in his race against New York Senator Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada's presidential contests on Saturday, and Republican voting ended in South Carolina as an unpredictable White House race moved to the U.S. South and West.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mitt Romney won Nevada's presidential nominating contests on Saturday, and voters in South Carolina cast ballots as an unpredictable White House race moved to the U.S. South and West.
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Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially-charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Clinton won heated presidential nominating battles in separate contests in South Carolina and Nevada on Saturday, gaining strength in an chaotic White House race where no candidate has been able to sustain momentum.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton says lobbyists are leading Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama's South Carolina campaign.
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Hillary opts to look toward Super Tuesday while Bill stays behind to focus on South Carolina. Is this a fair fight?
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UNDATED Republicans have strengthened their grip on southern state legislatures. But Democrats gained enough in other parts of the country for an almost-even party split.
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Next stop: South Carolina Democratic primary on Saturday, Jan. 26.
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COLUMBIA, S.C  - Barack Obama won a vital contest in South Carolina on Saturday in his quest for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination, showing strength among southern blacks who make up half the state's Democratic voters.
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Three-term GOP Rep. Jim DeMint defeated South Carolina's education superintendent Tuesday to win the Senate seat opened by retiring Democrat Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, turning back a late surge by his challenger in this Republican stronghold.
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COLUMBIA, South Carolina  - Barack Obama won a vital contest in South Carolina on Saturday in his quest for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination, showing strength among southern blacks who make up half the state's Democratic voters.
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GREENVILLE, S.C.  - Democratic state education  superintendent Inez Tenenbaum is giving Republicans an  unexpectedly tough battle for a U.S. Senate seat in  conservative South Carolina.