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The Obamas celebrate. Their work, though, is far from done.

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South Carolina: Obama's win or Clinton's loss?

When you take off the gloves, your knuckles get bruised. Barack Obama won big in South Carolina's Saturday primary -- with 70 percent of all voters saying they thought Hillary Clinton had attacked him unfairly during the campaign.

The nomination is still very much up for grabs. Who can win? Will the campaign stay nasty? And will the winner be able to muster enough party support to win in November?

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Ben likes: Obama wins big

Jonathan V. Last/The Weekly Standard

So here's the question: Going forward will it turn out that President Clinton maneuvered the Obama campaign into becoming, quite unwittingly, a campaign about racial solidarity? Earlier today Bill Clinton dismissed South Carolina by observing that Jesse Jackson won the state in both 1984 and 1988.

Or did Clinton's foray into his wife's campaign help remind Democrats why they were glad to be rid of the pair at the end of the '90s?

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Joel likes: Obama's big win a referendum on Clintons

Ari Berman/The Nation

South Carolina was billed as the "first black primary" by this magazine and many others.

But South Carolina was more than that. It was also a referendum on the campaign conduct of the Clintons over the past few weeks, particularly the bizarre behavior of President Clinton. The Clintons and their surrogates injected race into the campaign and then disingenuously pretended otherwise, courting the African-American vote while also appealing to voters less charitable instincts, prompting fears that Bill Clinton in particular was content to tear the Democratic Party apart as long as his wife was the beneficiary.

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