55%

55% is the percentage of the vote Hillary Clinton won in Michigan when no one else was on the ballot and it is the percentage of the vote that Barack Obama won in South Carolina when he actually had opponents.

Here are some interesting numbers...

• African American turnout doubled and turnout among 18-24 year olds was 3 times as big as the turnout in 2004.
  
• Most importantly, though, the turnout in the Democratic primary was higher than the Republican primary for the first time ever.
• In last week's Republican primary in South Carolina John McCain and Mike Huckabee won a total of 279,723 votes between themselves. Barack Obama won 295,000 vote by himself.
  

It was an impressive win for Obama in South Carolina today.