The South Carolina Split

From foxcarolina.com

COLUMBIA, S.C. Illinois Senator Barack Obama will be speaking to the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus at a special event next month.

Obama's selection comes after a disagreement with supporters of New York Senator Hilliary Clinton.The Caucus' invitations committee had already invited Obama and he had accepted when Clinton supporters questioned the selection.

Charleston Senator Robert Ford and Hopkins Senator Darrell Jackson had questioned the invitation, but conceded yesterday.Orangeburg Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter says it's important to have Obama speak as an example to young African-Americans.She says Obama's candidacy is historic. Others point to campaigns by Greenville native Jesse Jackson, the Reverend Al Sharpton, Shirley Chisolm and Carol Moseley Braun.

Forget New Hampshire, and Iowa....it's gonna be all about South Carolina in 2008. Dems need to get a reality check from John McCain on just how crazy Sowf Carolacky can be.

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Barack Iowa Bound

Hold please, for Senator Obama (Radio Iowa)

"Illinois Senator Barak Obama has begun telephoning key Iowa Democrats as he prepares to seek the Democratic party's presidential nomination... Obama talked with Mike Gronstal, the Democratic Leader of the Iowa Senate.

"I also talked with him last week and (Obama) called me yesterday to let me know he had filed his papers," Gronstal says. "I told him Iowa is a place where Iowa Caucus attenders are very studious about their job of picking a presidential nominee." Gronstal told Obama he would be welcome to speak privately with the 30 Democrats who serve in the Iowa Senate."