The right people are rising and the right people are falling

From Breitbart:

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama and Republican Fred Thompson were the frontrunners in South Carolina's first-in-the-South 2008 presidential primary, according to a poll Sunday.
The survey by the Mason-Dixon polling firm found that African-American support had pushed Obama ahead of US Senator Hillary Clinton, giving him the support of 34 percent of likely voters against 25 percent for Clinton.

Former US Senator John Edwards of North Carolina was third at 12 percent, while 24 percent of respondents were undecided.

Blacks in South Carolina, who could make up more than half of the party's primary voters, favored Obama over Clinton 41 percent to 18 percent, with about one-third of black voters in the state undecided.

In South Carolina's Republican nomination contest, Thompson -- a popular television actor and former Tennessee senator who has not yet formally entered the presidential race -- polled 25 percent. Former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani was second with 21 percent.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was third with 11 percent, followed by US Senator John McCain at seven percent. Twenty-eight percent of likely Republican voters were undecided.

South Carolina's Democratic primary is tentatively scheduled for January 29, while the Republican contest has been set for February 2.


All of this is interesting, but the most important two things are this:

1. Thompson is advancing. By the end of Summer he will be the unquestioned leader on the Republican side.

2. John Edwards and John McCain are finished. Neither of them have a chance and if they are too stupid/stubborn/selfish to acknowledge that and drop out the media should start giving them as much attention as they used to give Lyndon LaRouche.