COLUMBIA, S.C. - Oprah Winfrey came to South Carolina on Sunday with a message tailored to the state’s considerable African-American community, asking it to cast aside doubt and support the black man she assured them could — and should — be elected president.

On the second day of Barack Obama and Winfrey’s tour of early-voting states, the two turned out the biggest crowd yet of the election campaign, an exuberant and overwhelmingly African-American audience that filled about a third of a football stadium and organizers said exceeded 29,000. The scale of the event rivaled the largest campaign rallies in recent history.

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