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Oprah and the Obamanon

12/10/07, 3:22 pm EST

More than 29,000 people turned out to see Barack Obama and Oprah in South Carolina yesterday.

For the record, that turnout alone would have been good enough for third place in the 2004 primary in the Palmetto State.

I have a gut feeling that Oprah is a significant difference maker. She drew crowds of 10- and 20-thousand in Iowa. Another 10K in New Hampshire, and then that mother lode in South Carolina. And with Obama trailing by just two-to-three points in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina the difference doesn’t even have to be significant.

If you’re the Obama camp, you’ve got to love where you’re sitting. Obama is essentially drafting — leaving Clinton out in front, barely, to take the bruises that inevitably befall the frontrunner — ready to make a dramatic push in the last couple weeks.

As I survey the race right now, his biggest stumbling block is in Nevada, where Bill Richardson could play a spoiling role. But if he can take both corn country and Vegas-landia, New Hampshire should be a cakewalk.


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jedblowsdirtyinthemiddle | 12/10/2007, 6:55 pm EST

Who is Dr. Phil endorsing?

jedblowsdirtyinthemiddle | 12/10/2007, 7:44 pm EST

Who is Montel endorsing?

likroper.com | 12/10/2007, 10:40 pm EST

orprah-bama-palooza!

ray | 12/10/2007, 11:16 pm EST

Oprah, could hurt Obama with male swing voters. The Obama campaign has been to laid back time to come out swinging and go for the knock out while you got momentum.

jim | 12/11/2007, 2:10 am EST

lets see the clinton machine try to attack oprah. i cant help but giggle at how hillary must be seething. i would vote for obama just to see her face.

Francine Longo | 12/11/2007, 5:45 am EST

I understand that Pauly Shore is leaning towards Dodd. David Spade, however, is still waiting from a position paper about the blue tailed frog from Kucinich before choosing.

It’s amazing how quickly Hillary’s once unquestioned dominance is quickly eroding. In one of the debates she said the fellows were attacking her because she was winning. That was a mistake. Leading in the polls is not winning. Winning is winning.

Hillary is going to lose in Iowa, perhaps coming in 3rd. And she’s not likely to win in NH, which almost eliminates her from contention. Thank God. She’s fianlly getting what she deserves. And it’s even better because she was only recently counting her chickens.

Soon the carpetbagging senator “from New York” will return home to Arkansas where she’ll have plenty of time to reflect on how invaluable it was to “borrow” all those FBI files on other politicians when she was in the White House. Turns out they didn’t do her any good.

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