Bill was no help at all in S. Carolina, says John Dickerson for Slate, so much so that:
A big question facing the Clinton campaign is whether to put the Big Dog, Bill Clinton, back on the porch. The Himbo eruptions before the New Hampshire primary and Nevada caucus appeared to help Hillary. . . . [A]fter South Carolina we might see Bill Clinton suddenly dispatched to solve some new crisis in a country with no satellite trucks and no cell towers.
Blithe Spirit 
Dickerson is pathetic. He’s writing a cover story to distract readers from the real story of South Carolina, which I had predicted: The racism of black voters.
He emphasizes that while 82 percent of black voters voted for Obama, 27 percent of white voters also supported him. Duh! Of course! That’s just another way of saying that white voters are open to voting for a candidate of another race, or will even make a point of doing so, in a battle with a white candidate. And that is usually why, absent a black majority, a black candidate can beat a white rival.
Considering that typically, in match between a white and a “black” candidate, overf 90 percent of black voters will choose the black candidate, it was only blacks’ enduring affection for Bill Clinton that kept Obama’s numbers down.
Another rhetorical trick employed by Dickerson “himbo eruptions.” This leads the reader to expect to hear of campaign trail sexual hijinks on Bill Clinton’s part … only to find nothing of the sort.
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Blacks only prefer a black liberal candidate over a white liberal candidate; we have had great conservative black candidates, Keyes, Ken Blackwell, et al. — sadly, blacks don’t rush to support them.
I think that Bill and Hill raised this issue to scare white voters into a backlash against the expected black vote for Obama. We’ll see if it works.
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