Poll: Edwards at 3 Percent among South Carolina African-Americans

John Edwards has been playing to win Iowa, hoping to build momentum that will make him competitive with the frontrunner coming out the gate. Across all the polling I’ve seen, he is only doing well in Iowa.

The next stop after Iowa and New Hampshire is South Carolina. If Edwards, who was born in South Carolina but he grew up in North Carolina — and, yes, there is difference — can’t win or place in the season’s first Southern state primary, his campaign will likely end there.

African-Americans are arguably the most important Democratic constituency in South Carolina, and two new polls of South Carolina voters — a poll of African-Americans only from Winthrop College and ETV, South Carolina’s public television network,and a poll of all voters from the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg — shows big trouble for the Edwards campaign:

Winthrop/ETV Poll

Overall
• Obama 35 percent
• Clinton 31 percent
• Edwards 3 percent
• Undecided 29 percent

African American men
• Obama 42.4 percent
• Clinton 30.5 percent
• Edwards 3.4 percent
• Undecided 21.7 percent

African American women
• Obama 30.6 percent
• Clinton 30.9 percent
• Edwards 2.9 percent
• Undecided 33.8 percent

Times/Bloomberg poll

Among all Democrats
• Clinton 45 percent
• Obama 27 percent
• Edwards 7 percent
• Undecided 13 percent

Among African Americans
• Clinton 43 percent
• Obama 32 percent
• Edwards 4 percent
• Undecided 18 percent

Of course, the percentage of “Undecideds” is significant, and it is possible they cold break toward Edwards if he moves up. For now, however, they’re not feeling it.

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Poll: Edwards at 3 Percent among South Carolina African-Americans

Winthrop/ETV Poll

Times/Bloomberg poll

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