I am looking for #s of how much Jesse Jackson won in SC in 84/88

[usregimechange]

I know this was Jesse Jackson's home state but I am also looking for the % of vote he won by. Anyone know where I can find this?

[jasmine621]

1. Whites don't see Obama as the threat that Jackson did.

White folks don't like blacks who actually stand up to them. I guess maybe having a white mother makes Obama less threatening?

[klook]

2. This article will give you the low-down.

Apparently the plan was to spin this as just "another black candidate winning in a state with a bunch of poor black voters." Oh well, so much for that strategy.

The Clintons Can't Spin Obama's Stunning S.C. Victory
by Steve Kornacki

The Clinton campaign spent the last week frantically inveigling the media to attach an asterisk to the South Carolina results.

And it just blew up in their faces.

Right up until the very end, just hours before the polls closed, Bill Clinton—the same Bill Clinton who had previously summoned all the righteous indignation he could to proclaim his campaign's innocence in encouraging a racial divide—sought to chalk up his wife's looming defeat to identity politics.

"Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, in '84 and '88," the former President reminded reporters just before the polls closed—even though no one had asked him about race.

But Jesse Jackson—whose victories came when South Carolina held caucuses, not primaries—never won like this.
-- New York Observer, January 26, 2008

Click here to read more...

[aquart]

3. "Poor black voters"?

Another successful attempt to spin Hillary as the elite candidate and Obama as Man of the People.

Unless you look at the demographics.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time...

[klook]

4. OK, "black voters." Is that better? (n/t)