Front-runner, backstageLIKE most residents of Eastside in Charleston, a poor, mostly black, quarter of the South Carolinian port-city, Joe Watson, a grocer with strong political views, backed Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary contest. At least, he did until the news from Iowa and New Hampshire suggested Barack Obama could actually win the thing, at which point he, and millions of other black voters across the South, abruptly ditched Mrs Clinton. But now, he says, raising his eyes from the Bible he keeps open on the counter of Mary’s Sweet Shop, he is for her again.
“Women got that focus, got that desire to help people, got that greater fellowship than us men,” he muses, pointing the interviewer to the polished stool he reserves for political talk. He likes her chances, too. After Mr Obama secured the Democratic nomination, Mr Watson rounded up 300 new voters for him; “They were so joyous in their cause, and it can be that way for Hillary, too.”
There is, in fact, little levity around Mrs Clinton’s campaign. Her lead over the Democratic field has shrivelled in recent weeks, as she has failed...Continue reading
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