The South Carolina Congressional Black Caucus Institute Democratic Primary Presidential Debate

The 2008 Presidential campaigns must have taken a chapter or two from Congresswoman Chisholm’s handbook. Recent CNN polls suggest that the 18-28 year old voters are having their say and putting their vote to use by participating heavily in this presidential election. Here in South Carolina, the African American vote was extremely crucial to, “test the Presidential candidates in a state where nearly half the voters are African American,” says U.S.Congressman Bennie G. Thompson, Chair of The Congressional Black Caucus Institue.

“To have the debate January 21st was to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “More significantly, here in South Carolina, from the Institute’s perspective, is that this is an area where a significant number of Democratic voters will be African American.”