A Shellacking in South Carolina: Clinton Is Inevitable

Daily Mail

Blooomberg via Drudge   "The Democratic calendar finally reached a good Hillary Clinton state on Saturday, and wow did she take advantage of it.

She was expected to win big. Nate Silver projected that if the national race was a tie between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, she would win in South Carolina by about 20 percentage points. Instead, she romped by far more – as I write this, she’s taking over 70 percent of the vote. 

"The bottom line is that Sanders still hasn’t found any way to appeal to black voters, who made up a large percentage of Democratic turnout. Without them no candidate can compete for a Democratic presidential nomination. The exit polls in South Carolina project Sanders lost the black vote by some 70 percentage points. That not only doomed him today, but also it dooms him in far too many states to have any serious chance of being nominated.

"We’re going to see the effects on Tuesday, where polls have Sanders getting crushed in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama and Georgia. " . . .

"Sanders hasn’t been a national leader during his long political career. He is one now. He has to decide what he will do with his new influence."

NRO: Clinton Annihilates Sanders in South Carolina as Blacks Break against Bernie  . . . "Sanders wasn’t even in the state when the vote was called. He left for Minnesota before the polls closed, refusing to give a concession speech in the state where he crumpled under Clinton’s weight." . . .

Huge black margin of support powered Hillary’s South Carolina primary win  "This is stunning: Hillary Clinton won a greater share of black votes in the South Carolina primary yesterday than Barack Obama did in 2008, running against Clinton.  Nobody else in the media wants to examine the reason why. Hillary demonstrated the power of racial bloc voting in the South Carolina primary yesterday, approaching a three to one margin over Bernie Sanders with 73.48% of the vote to his 25.97%."