Sen. Barack Obama's huge victory over Sen. Hillary Clinton in South Carolina tonight probably reflected as much on Bill Clinton as it did on his wife. The Los Angeles Times notes the "spectacle of a former president getting down and dirty in the current political trenches with numerous attacks on the freshman Illinois senator may have backfired big-time.""According to CNN exit polls, the ex-president's campaigning was an important factor in nearly 60% of Democrats' voting decisions.
Of those, 47% went for Obama and only 38% for Clinton's wife. Fourteen percent went for John Edwards."Nonetheless, "a Clinton aide said that Bill Clinton would continue campaigning for his wife."Jake Tapper reports that Clinton added fuel to the fire today -- an justified charges that he's engaging in race-baiting -- by comparing Obama's victory in South Carolina to Jesse Jackson's in 1984 and 1988.
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