Jules Crittenden

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For the politics of faux racism by surrogate! MSNBC:

The South Carolina Democratic primary has been a bitter, hard-fought contest with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama taking jabs at each other in Monday’s televised debate. In the exit polls, we asked voters in this primary if the candidates were attacking each other unfairly. Fifty-six percent of those voting so far think Obama attacked Clinton unfairly, and while that is a high number, more people thought Clinton unfairly attacked Obama — 70%.

The Clintons have been accused of playing the race card in this contest. We do see some potential fallout for the Clintons in the African-American community: 74% of African-American voters think that Clinton unfairly attacked Obama. But when we look at the same question among white voters, a comparable number thought Clinton unfairly attacked Obama — 68%.

Also worth mentioning, a majority of the voters — 56% — said that Bill Clinton’s campaigning was important to their vote today.

I guess that means they figured out he’s full of it. Here’s Gandelman at Moderate Voice on Bill’s 99.99 percent positivity. Captain’s Quarter on the vindication of derangement. Riehl suggests not all the race-baiting was faux. New Republic blogger notes Obama tied Hill on white men, mulls race-gender conundrum.

Anyway, exiting polling would appear to lend strong support the politics of divisiveness as a means of achieving unity, a winning card best played by others. In case anyone was wondering:

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Topics: pols, racism