More than three thousand people gathered to see New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton make her first presidential campaign stop in South Carolina The overflowing audience packed an auditorium at Allen University, a historically black college, to hear Clinton speak in a town hall-style setting.
Over the weekend, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois drew a crowd approaching five thousand at historically black Claflin College.
HBCU’s are a must-visit in this early voting state where half the Democratic primary voters are black.