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Harvard in Charleston...
...CHARLESTON, S.C.—Sen. John Edwards captured a must-win victory here last night, capturing the South Carolina Democratic primary by a margin of 15 points over Sen. John F. Kerry, his nearest competitor...
...Harvard volunteers have been working on the campaigns since their arrival in Charleston last Thursday. Students fanned out into various areas of the city to canvass, knocking on doors and distributing literature about their respective candidate. Though canvassing and publicity were the major activities of the week, students also helped phonebank and organized campaign activities...
...clear Democratic contender in the primary season: Jackson, then Clinton and then Al Gore. This time, though, the vote looks as if it may be scattered across the pack. "There is no messiah among them," says the Rev. Joseph Darby, pastor of the Morris Brown A.M.E. Church in Charleston and one of the city's most prominent black leaders. But is the difficulty this time caused by the message or the messenger? Or by the contemporary political landscape, where the black demographic is no longer so monolithic, and where leaders do not dutifully line up behind one candidate, and where...
...South Carolina and still has minimal staff on the ground. His military pedigree may appeal to black voters, but his more remote style may be a liability. Not surprisingly, Al Sharpton has had one of the strongest presences in South Carolina, handing out Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people in Charleston and bringing congregations to their feet across the state. But as the black vote becomes less uniform, a boutique black candidate suffers. "A lot of blacks in South Carolina want the same thing as people in Iowa," says David Bositis, a scholar at the Washington Joint Center for Political...