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To: SilentZ who wrote (368556)	1/27/2008 9:30:35 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583644

Army of youth is Obama's secret weapon Sunday, January 27th 2008, 4:00 AM Barack Obama didn't just trounce John Edwards and the Hillary/Bill Clinton combo in Saturday's South Carolina Democratic primary - he crushed them, winning all but three of South Carolina's 46 counties in an election with a record turnout. More importantly, he beat the expectations and conventional wisdom from pundits about racial and gender voting patterns - exactly what he needed to do in order to have a shot at winning the upcoming 22-state national primary on Feb. 5. Obama wasn't supposed to be popular with whites - the Clintons used attacks and innuendo to make him the "black" candidate - but Obama got an estimated 24% of white voters, more than double what pollsters anticipated. Hillary was supposed to have a lock on female voters - but Obama got the support of 54% of South Carolina's women. Even class proved no barrier to Obama's success. He won the state's wealthiest county and its poorest, and most of everything in between. The big untold story in the race - the greatest, most unpredictable factor - is Obama's creation of a powerful youth movement that pollsters and pundits often overlook. On the day before the primary, Clinton got a tepid response from about 600 students at a black college and Edwards spoke to about 200 - but Obama wowed 5,000 kids at Clemson University, and another 1,000 or so at a late-night rally across the street from the University of South Carolina. I spoke to students who traveled from places like Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and New York to volunteer for the campaign. One group of out-of-state twentysomething volunteers I spent time with arrived from up north like old-style civil rights workers, knocking on doors by day and bunking with local families at night. They were charged up and happy to be working for Obama - and positively delirious at the rallies. "Young people are voting at rates we have not seen in the history of this country," Obama told a cheering crowd on Friday night. "It's your generation that can imagine not just the world as it is, but the world as it could be." The question of the hour is whether the Obama phenomenon that swept all-white Iowa and mostly black South Carolina will spread nationally. The best way to find out is to check with somebody under 30. In this election, they have the answer. nydailynews.com