Reply #4: I haven't been able to figure it out

[Adelante]

Obviously the large black vote split between Clinton and Obama says something about Edwards' problem, but Hillary's taking him out on the white vote, too. South Carolina is the only primary he won in 2004, and it is his native state, although he didn't bring it in for the GE. In one recent poll I read that 80% of South Carolinians believe the VP choice on the ticket means a lot in how they vote, which I found interesting. Edwards seems to have a complicated standing in his native state, currently not to his benefit, but partly it could be that he has so concentrated on Iowa, SC voters have lost sight of him.