The PendulumNEWSPage 2 / Wednesday, January 23, 2008

SPECIAL REPORT:see pgs 3, 8 & 9 for more coverage

Capturing the

campaign

Sens. Barack Obama and John Edwards look over the program of Monday’s “King Day at the Dome,” an event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. in Columbia, S.C. The two Democratic candi-dates both hope to win South Carolina in Saturday’s primary election.

RIGHT: Crowd members at Sen. Barack Obama’s

Columbia rally Sunday waved

signs and chanted campaign slogans like “Be a part of

something great— Obama ’08.” BE-LOW: Democratic

primary hopeful John Edwards

sits in a pew of Columbia’s Zion

Baptist Church Sunday. Zion’s annual Martin

Luther King, Jr. service is often

attended by high-profile politicians

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ABOVE: A small contingent of locals stands before the South Carolina Statehouse, during Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day event to support the flying of the Con-federate flag. Monday’s main speech included strong criti-cism against the flag, which still flies over Columbia’s Statehouse building. LEFT: Sen. Hillary Clinton waves to the crowd gathered in front of the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia during Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day memorial events. Although Sens. Barack Obama and John Edwards walked onto the South Carolina Capitol steps together Monday morn-ing, Clinton made her own separate entrance on the steps after the day’s main speech.

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“The most enjoyable thing is hearing him speak,” said Roz Rodri-guez, an Obama volunteer attending Sunday’s rally in Columbia. “Once you hear him give a speech, you’re sold forever.”

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