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John Edwards Victory Party 2008!

John Edwards Victory Party 2008!
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COLUMBIA, S.C.—Yes, can you hear me? Hello?! It's just BEDLAM here at John Edwards VICTORY PARTY HEADQUARTERS 2008, as a number of people casually dine on what look like chicken wings and cigarettes in Jillian's, down on Gervais Street. We are in this large watering hole very close to downtown—and from the parking lot you can hear Barack Obama's fans yelling, awaiting his concession speech. (Is that right? I can't quite see the numbers under Wolf Blitzer on the T.V., because there are all these lights set up for the making of yet more T.V. and it is very blinding! The T.V. is both coming in to here and going out at the same time!) Oddly enough—Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up" is playing here inside Jillian's. That is the song that Barack Obama often plays after he has concluded a speech.

There are just a phenomenal number of reporters here—they've just gotta be excited at pulling Edwards detail on this triumphant night for the man that Hillary Clinton has called "a son of the south" at every opportunity this week.

Oh wow, now they are playing the Arcade Fire, a band popular with the urban young! Very preliminary results are coming in, over the T.V. waves, but not very much at all is going on here besides—wait, there is a man in a big spiky rooster hat and a patterned silk coat. I cannot identify a single reporter here! One woman is saying that service is "super-super-slow here"! That is okay because there are only dozens and dozens of people trying to dine, while the majority of people (the press) are eating from the free buffet, which I am about to plow into like a mack truck. More information to come on the status of the buffet and my eating of it as those events warrant.

Wait, I've just met two young white girls, one 18 and one 17, who are here in the front of the restaurant for a birthday party! The 18-year-old declined to vote in her very first primary. "I didn't know the hooplah about all this stuff," she said. But it was such a crazy election, how could she pass, I asked. "I was watching the thing on TV, who was it Edwards, Obama and Clinton, it was just between Clinton and Obama, they were just dissing each other, they weren't telling each other about anything," she said.

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Peter Feld (not verified) says:

Those girls are the perfect antidote to a Frank Luntz focus group. Take some Facebook pictures with them!

Bingham (not verified) says:

This is what irritates me, first time voters who neglect to go out and vote! I am 17 but will be 18 before November, so by my states laws, I will be voting in the Primaries on February 5th. However, what irritates me more than that is how people vote, voting for Hillary because she is a woman, voting for Obama because he is younger, or because he is an African-American. It makes as much sense as people voting for a candidate because he is a Baptist, or if he is a Catholic. This generation may make a big "change" in the 2008 election, but please don't make it a change like in the 1920 election, in which Warren G Harding was elected President, mostly because women, who were voting for the first time for President, voted him in great numbers based on his "looks".

Kirk G. (not verified) says:

Bingham:
I would have to agree 100%. Fifty percent of SC voters are African America, over 80% of them (based on exit polls) went for Obama. Is it any surprised where his victory came from.
I know people decide on their candidates for a variety of reasons. The most common one I heard coming out of SC for Obama was that "it was time for a black president." Huh?

DO I hear Warren Harding? Heck, George W Bush was supposed to be the guy " you want to have a beer with!"
(I wonder how many voters got invited to the White House for a Budweiser.)

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