The Polling Booth: Hillary Clinton ran away with the South Carolina Democratic primary, setting herself up to crush Bernie Sanders next week on Super Tuesday. The vote was 73.5 percent Clinton, 26 percent Sanders.

More than half the Democratic voters in South Carolina are non-white, a critical block for a Democrat. Clinton won by almost 20 points more than Barack Obama’s margin in 2008.

In what may go down as one of the more stirring speeches of Clinton’s career, she went after Donald Trump saying, “We don’t need to make America great again. America has never stopped being great,” she said to rousing applause from her supporters. “But we do need to make America whole again. Instead of building walls we need to be tearing down barriers.”

It’s a huge loss for Sanders, but getting off a plane in Rochester, Minn. he was sanguine saying, “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Tonight we lost.”

Calm in the Storm: In his annual letter to investors, billionaire Warren Buffett dismisses the mostly Republican presidential candidates who say America is pointed toward disaster. “The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history,” he says. Buffett goes on, “For 240 years it’s been a terrible mistake to bet against America, and now is no time to start.”

Does Marco Rubio know about this?

Full Disclosure: Candidate Marco Rubio released his income taxes, revealing that his outside income in 2014 was nearly as much as his $174,000 Senate salary.

Rubio’s gross adjusted income rose every year after he was elected to the Senate, from $183,826 in 2010 to a peak of $929,439 in 2012. That was the year he published his book, “An American Son: A Memoir.” Rubio made $566,780 in 2013 and $335,561 in 2014.

Oscar Outlook: One thing you can bet on for tonight’s Academy Awards is that all winners of acting awards will be white and the host will be black. All the nominees are white. Chris Rock has been trying out his material at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles and it sounds like he’s going to be merciless — no matter what color you are.

The Academy swears things will change, but according to the Los Angeles Times, the Academy members who vote on the Oscars are 91 percent white and 76 percent male. “Although the Academy says it has invited more women and minorities, they have more than 6,000 members who’ve been appointed for life, so voter demographics will not change quickly.

Nation: Four people were stabbed with the tip of a flagpole, one of them critically, during a clash at a small gathering of the Ku Klux Klan in Anaheim, Calif. Reports say a group of counter-protesters showed up with weapons, things turned violent, and the Klansmen used a flagpole like a spear. A total of 13 people from both sides were arrested.

Downhill: American ski champion Lindsey Vonn crashed and suffered a hairline fracture in her left knee when she crashed during a Super-G run in Andorra.

The Happiest Place: The Walt Disney Company, which knows something about separating customers from their money, is introducing “demand” pricing at their parks. The more crowded it is, the more you pay to enter, as much as $20 more.

Disney says it’s a crowd control, not a profit-making move.

Right now a one-day ticket is $99. So let’s get this straight — it’s so crowded that it will take you two hours to get on the Space Mountain ride and you’ll have to pay more for it. Parking is extra and lunch for kids at Ariel’s Grotto is $22.60.

Editor’s Note: The Rooney Report will be coming to you — or not — from Cuba, starting March 5^th. Depending on the availability of Internet and WiFi, which is a little sketchy down there, we’ll file reports. Cuban rum might also interfere with connectivity. If we fall completely off the grid, and in a way we hope we do, we’ll tell you about it when we get back.

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