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01/13/2008: "Black voters provide powerful political swing"

In beauty shops, churches and living rooms, organizers for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a fierce competition for the support of black voters in the upcoming first-in-the-South presidential primary.

Obama's campaign is counting on blacks who traditionally make up half of the Democratic primary voters here to deliver the state to him on Jan. 26, a victory that he hopes will help fuel momentum going into the "Mega Tuesday" voting in 22 states 10 days later. But he'll have to fend off Clinton, who comes with one of the most beloved political surnames in the black community.

[ Gross pandering. Don't black voters feel patronized? ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_south_carolina