Clark Gets Early Start in Wooing S. Carolina ; Black Voters Hold Key to Wins in the South

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COLUMBIA, S.C. - While his rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination fought it out Monday on Iowa's frozen turf, retired Gen. Wesley Clark spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday campaigning in South Carolina, where blacks will make up perhaps 50 percent of voters in a key primary Feb. 3.

Clark has spent more time in South Carolina than any of the other six states that have primaries Feb. 3, and Monday was the 10th day he has campaigned here. Thirty-second television ads for him have been airing since Dec. 2, and the Clark campaign has five state offices, 40 paid staff members, and a dozen full-time volunteers.

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Clark Gets Early Start in Wooing S. Carolina ; Black Voters Hold Key to Wins in the South

South Carolina is key because black voters will make up nearly half the Democratic electorate here after the overwhelmingly white contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. It also will be th...

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