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What a political weekend! On Sabado, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama won the South Carolina party primary by a fairly large margin.

With 99 percent of the electoral precincts reporting, Mr. Obama had 55 percent of the vote, Mrs. Clinton had 27 percent, and Mr. Edwards had 18 percent.

In his victory speech, Obama tried to distance himself from being the “black candidate”.

“The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders,” Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. “It’s not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it’s not about black versus white. It’s about the past versus the future.”
The audience chanted “Race doesn’t matter”…

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