Well, there is one demographic the Democrats have been chasing ever since Ronald Reagan won in 1980--southern white males. And he didn't win them by being a reactionary fascist racist, either. He didn't win them by pandering to the old southern Democrat party, without Blue Doggin' anybody.

Instead, he has positioned himself--really smartly I think, as the Democrat's ethnically diverse and cosmopolitan "New South" candidate, and is doing it going around the Democratic Leadership Council, which is looking very old school and dated this year, for sure.

Also, didn't Edwards win SC in 2004 as I recall? I mean, it isn't like he can't win among black voters. His message has a lot of appeal to them, but he needs some help finding better ways of reaching that audience. Because he clearly didn't connect with them this year the way he did in 2004. I think that is because the SC race, like in 1988, very much split down racial lines. It doesn't matter how much Obama says he appeals to everyone and is the unity candidate. He has to be able to do far better in the other demographics on Super Tuesday than he did last night in SC.

Remember--there still hasn't been a state vote with a sizable Latino vote yet.