When the polls have you ahead by around 30 points, beating expectations is a pretty tough ask. Yet that’s exactly what Hillary Clinton did in South Carolina’s Democratic primary, crushing Bernie Sanders 73 per cent to 26 per cent.
Clinton owes that huge margin to overwhelming support from African American voters. According to the exit polls, 61 per cent of those who voted yesterday were black, and 86 per cent of them voted for Hillary. That’s a bigger share than the 78 per cent Barack Obama won against her in 2008.
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