In 2008, Hillary Clinton lost South Carolina by nearly 30 percent. In 2016, she's winning by 50 percent.

The passage of eight years has been very good to Hillary Clinton in South Carolina. Her victory over Bernie Sanders on Saturday night looks to be even more convincing than her blowout loss to Barack Obama in 2008.

Running against Obama, Clinton lost her last Palmetto State primary by a margin of nearly 30 percent. This time around, she is on track to win by 50 percent or more.

Clinton even improved on Obama's numbers among African Americans: In 2008, he won the black vote in South Carolina by a margin of 59 percent. This year, she is predicted to win it by 68 percent.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.