Link: www.msnbc.com/…

There are emerging signs that Hillary Clinton is falling behind Bernie Sanders, both in campaign infrastructure and in exciting black voters in South Carolina, according to an article on msnbc.com.

As of last week, the Clinton campaign had only two campaign offices in South Carolina: one in Charleston and another in the capital, Columbia, with just 14 full-time staffers including state director Clay Middleton. The campaign also has nine “get out the vote” sites – smaller-scale sites devoted to turnout – across the state. The Sanders campaign, meanwhile, had 240 staffers on the ground as of last week – 80 percent of them African-American – spread across 10 offices statewide.

Bernie has had his people on the ground, knocking on doors, seemingly more than the Clinton campaign has been doing.

Clinton’s campaign expressed great confidence after Iowa that their commanding lead among black voters would form a strong “firewall” in South Carolina, and bring the race back into control for Clinton. But there is a lot of question whether the black vote will hold for Clinton as it did for Barack Obama in 2008. Clinton assumed this would happen, but whether it will or not is very uncertain.

“They took [black voters] for granted and underestimated Bernie’s support,” said State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, who led the fight on the House side of the state legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the capitol grounds. “They’ve now discovered there are black folks ‘feeling the Bern.’” Cobb-Hunter added that Sanders doesn’t even need to win the black vote outright to contest South Carolina. “All he needs to do is carve off a piece of it,” she said, “because he’s got the working-class whites who don’t like Trump, he’s got the women, he’s got the young people.”

It appears that Bernie’s campaign management, funnily enough, much maligned by ‘political experts’ here on this site early in the campaign, are outworking and outsmarting Hillary’s “Dream Team” campaign. Oops.

I like what I’m seeing here. Whether Bernie can catch up in South Carolina is yet to be seen, but the fact that Hillary’s campaign is light in South Carolina is mind-boggling. What exactly are they doing? As for me, I’ll be cooking up some popcorn…

VOTE BERNIE SANDERS.