The Democrats--Where will the wind blow?

Barack Obama has the momentum. But he faces big obstacles

“WE LEAVE this great state with a new wind at our back”, Barack Obama told a huge crowd of supporters at the Columbia Convention Centre on January 26th. A new wind indeed. Mr Obama beat Hillary Clinton in South Carolina by a 28-point _____ (55% to 27%). He beat John Edwards, a native of the state and the winner of the 2004 Democratic primary, by 37 points. Mrs Clinton, who had ______ millions of dollars

into the state, had already ________ Tennessee. Mr Edwards dropped out of the race four days later.

On January 28th Mr Obama caught another useful gust. Edward Kennedy gave Mr Obama one of the _____________ in Democratic politics—John Kennedy's mantle. Speaking at American University in Washington, DC, where JFK delivered one of his great speeches, and accompanied by Caroline Kennedy, JFK's daughter, as well as his own son, Patrick Kennedy, he repeatedly described Mr Obama as the JFK of his generation.