{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://clyburn.house.gov/president-obama-coming-to-columbia/", "President Obama coming to Columbia", "2015-03-02", "2015", "2015-03", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "James E. Clyburn", "C000537", "clyburn.house.gov", "clyburn", "https://clyburn.house.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u2014 President Barack Obama will visit South Carolina for the first time since winning the state\u2019s Democratic presidential primary in 2008.\n\nObama will attend a youth rally Friday at Benedict College, a historically black private school in Columbia, The White House said. Details about the president\u2019s trip will be released later this week.\n\nHis visit will come two weeks after Vice President Joe Biden swung through Columbia and Charleston.\n\nSouth Carolina is one of three states Obama has not visited since becoming president. Utah and South Dakota are the others.\n\nThe president has not come to South Carolina until this week because it is one of the more Republican-dominant states in the country, Winthrop University political scientist Scott Huffmon said. Obama failed to top Republican rivals in the Palmetto State on his way to victories in the 2008 and 2012 general elections.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s more about how useful is a visit than any snub of South Carolina,\u201d Huffmon said. \u201cYou have to make strategic use of a president\u2019s time. It\u2019s a finite resource.\u201d\n\nCLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T20:12:38Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://clyburn.house.gov/president-obama-coming-to-columbia/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7792599499225616, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}