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Democrats to Address King Day Rally

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[January 21, 2008]  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Three of the Democrats seeking their party's presidential nomination speak today at a Martin Luther King Day rally at the South Carolina statehouse.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards will be speaking, with black voters expected to make up about half of those casting ballots in Saturday's Democratic primary.

The "King Day at the Dome" was created in part to criticize the flying of the Confederate flag over the statehouse.

Yesterday, Obama's wife, Michelle, and Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, were tucked among hundreds of congregants on opposite sides of a black church, clapping in unison with the choir during Sunday services.

The sermon was delivered by a state senator who's a paid consultant for the Clinton campaign. A member of the church is Obama's South Carolina political director.

[Associated Press]

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