NBC projects.
Wide margin. Second and third not clear yet.
White voters are voting for Obama, per Jim Clyburn.
It's only been 2 minutes...no margin yet. Be patient.
UPDATE: Clyburn sounds happy. He likes that white voters went for Obama. Keith is saying that AP says O won a vital primary and "routed" Hillary.
EXITS: Landslide among blacks for O: 81% in every demographic among blacks, old young female male uneducated educated...no majority in white vote, but close: 24% - 36% Hillary. Black women for O, not Hillary. White women split between Clinton and Edwards.
Obama: He won the young vote, 49%, but only 16% whites 60 and over. Did well with college-educated whites (Edwards did well with them). Typing as fast as I can!
UPDATE: Bill Clinton made an error pushing his points, they're saying.
Polls were wrong...again. The Bill Clinton tactic has proved faulty in S. Carolina, per Margaret Carlson.
UPDATE: This is a primary, not a caucus, they're saying. Obama will speak at 9 Eastern. Numbers now: O 49%, Hill 40%, JE 15%.
If the vote matches the exit poll, Timmy says, it's an enormous victory, because he's getting black and white vote, a coalition in S. Carolina that will swing into Super Tuesday. Plus, Hillary's house to house effort didn't work. The unknown, white and latino voters coming up on Super Tuesday. But Tim Russert sounds like Obama just turned a corner.
UPDATE: Obama has surpassed all expectations, says Tim. "Something happened in these final few days...gave him a mandate, sent a message about tone in the campaign." That's the lesson of S. Carolina.
If Hillary keeps up the tactics that are perceived to be race generated, it might work with latino voters in CA, but elsewhere? With bigger black populations? You can't have your opponent get 80% black vote and win. Even in Hillary Clinton states.
UPDATE: Tim's going crazy. The 80% black vote is HUGE. Plus the young voters.
UPDATE: White male voters: Obama and clinton tied, 28 (Hillary)-27% (Obama). She needs to improve that, says Tim. Emphatically.
UPDATE #23075: O: 63%, Hillary 24%.
UPDATE #797389: Edwards 12%.
Maybe we'll start a new thread.
But Buckeroo, if Edwards gets enough delegates he just might have the say so over who gets to be the nominee.