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• The Early Word: South Carolina Pt. 2: The Democrats

  Today, it's the Democrats' turn to pick a nominee in South Carolina. Forecast: “Good weather and an attractive slate of candidates have South Carolina Democrats expecting record turnout for today's presidential primary, continuing a trend seen in other early-voting states,” writes John O'Connor of Columbia, S.C.'s The State. For John Edwards, today represents his last best chance to break into what has essentially been a two.

• Live From South Carolina, the Democratic Primary

  8:39 p.m. | Obama Picks Up a Kennedy Endorsement Caroline Kennedy endorses Mr. Obama in an New York Times op-ed called “A President Like My Father,” which is up on our Web site now. 8:36 p.m. | Bill on the Brain? About one fifth of the voters made up their minds in the last three days, with 57 percent of them going for Mr. Obama and only 18 percent for Mrs. Clinton. That's when Bill Clinton was dominating the news.

• The Democratic Take: From Top to Bottom

  The Democratic race is turning out to be a battle of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “top-down” style of politics and Barack Obama’s “bottom-up,” grassroots approach. At least, that’s the view of Joe Trippi, a senior adviser to John Edwards, who addressed the changing political climate — particularly the transformation of the Democratic party — at a panel Wednesday in Washington. What’s rocking the boat? The Internet.

• Catholics Turned to the Democrat

  Much was made in 2004 of the so-called “God gap” between Republicans and Democrats, becoming part of the conventional wisdom explaining President Bush's victory over Senator John F. Kerry. As a result, the Democratic Party, including Senator Barack Obama, focused heavily on outreach to religious voters, including white evangelicals who voted overwhelmingly for President Bush, and talked more openly than ever before about faith.

• Live From South Carolina, the Democratic Debate

  8:30 p.m. | It’s On Mr. Obama is REALLY irritated about “a set of assertions made by Senator Clinton as well as her husband that are not factually accurate.” Mrs. Clinton hits back hard, probably the hardest she has in these debates throughout this campaign. She says records and words matter. As soon as Mr. Obama is confronted on his record, she says, “he says that's not what he meant.” She bring up his recent comments about Republicans and said he had said he “really liked” their ideas (which isn't exactly what he had said).

• Lakoff reframes the Democrats

  I’m on the road and haven’t heard George “Mr. Metaphor” Lakoff’s reframing of the Democrats, in an interview with Dave Winer, but I hear it’s good. [Tags: politics geoerge_lakoff dave_winer democrats ] Categories: marketing, politics

• "The Democrats and Working Class Whites"

  Lane Kenworthy on the reasons for the "defection of whites, especially working-class whites, from the Democrats." The argument is that the defection has not been confined to the south as many claim, it is a general trend, and that economic factors are a large part of the explanation. If that is true (though I'd like to hear the response of Bartels, Schaller, Krugman, and others before coming to that conclusion).

• For the Tech-Forward White House, a Reverse

  Evidently there will be no Blackberry One in the White House. Concerns over e-mail security and the disclosure requirements in the Presidential Records Act, as The New York Times reported yesterday, will force Barack Obama to give up his second “addiction” in as many years. (The first may have been the easier one for the hyperconnected president-elect to leave behind.) It seems Mr. Obama will be the third Internet.

• Sebelius to Deliver Democratic Address on State of the Union

  Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid just announced that Kansas Governor Sebelius will deliver the Democratic Address on State of the Union after the president gives his speech in about two weeks. Also, Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte will deliver the Spanish language address.

• McCain Tops the Democrats in Media Coverage

  If you're anxiously awaiting tonight's results, you can stop pacing and consider this: In the last week, Senator John McCain has surpassed even Senator Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton in the amount of news coverage he has received. The media effectively anointed Mr. McCain as the Republican front-runner after he won Florida. At the same time, reporters were writing up a storm about how conservatives were trying to deny Mr.