So Obama took South Carolina. Heartening. But worrisome in this way: he got, as expected, the overwhelming majority of the black vote -- but only 35% of the white vote. Blacks being 10% of the US population, he can't win the general election like that. Now, to their credit, another third of white SC Democrats went for Hillary, so they were willing to vote for a woman when they had a third choice, a white man who was also the native son. Some of them can be counted on to find it in their hearts to vote for Obama if it comes to it. I still, as I said a few weeks ago, have great doubts that he (or she, for that matter) is electable in the privacy of the voting booth in such a fundamentally racist, sexist country as we are. And as I also said then, I'd love to be wrong. But if it's going to happen, I think it needs a big bandwagon. If people see Obama as unstoppable, they'll jump on so they'll have been with the winner. So I'm voting for him here in NY next week, hoping he sweeps the Super Tuesday states and gets that glow.