One piece of good news from South Carolina, according to exit polls: Al Sharpton flopped, even among blacks. He did disturbingly well among middle-class blacks in Washington, D.C.’s pretend primary a few weeks ago–a sign that had me worried about him performing well throughout the South, like Jesse Jackson in 1984. But the numbers I just saw indicate that both Edwards and Kerry are attracting two times as many votes as Sharpton. If this were a blacks-only primary in South Carolina, he’d be finishing a distant third.