Buc: Iowa. That allowed African-American voters to believe that he could actually win. They shifted for him in SC and after that win he dominated a key constituency of the primary.
You can go back further, though, if you'd like. Her Iraq vote and failure to renounce it gave Obama a niche for his campaign. The obscene amount of money she threw away in her Senate reelection could have been put to good use in the primary. Hiring Mark Penn guaranteed a loss.
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