Obama projected winner in Mississippi

[GoneOffShore]

Source: MSNBD

updated 6 minutes ago

JACKSON, Miss. - NBC News declared Barack Obama as the projected winner in the Mississippi primary on Tuesday, the latest in a string of racially polarized contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before April's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.

Obama was winning roughly 90 percent of the black vote but only about one-third of the white vote, extending a pattern that carried him to victory in earlier primaries in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.

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There were 33 Democratic National Convention delegates at stake, and Obama looked to regain at least some of the luster he lost a week ago with defeats in three of four primaries. He is the strongest black presidential candidate in history and hoped the racial makeup of Mississippi would work to his advantage.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23571981/

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On to Pennsylvania and the convention!

[billbuckhead]

1. A third of the white vote, that's really bringing the Democratic party together

:shrug:

[msongs]

2. odd that you only mention one aspect of the issue and not both nt

[tachyon]

3. The other half of the issue is the black people are obviously voting for him

because he's black. How is that any better than being against him for the same reason?

[pbca]

7. It's Mississippi 1/3 of the white vote for a black candidate

I'd pretty good

[El Supremo]

4. Mississippi politics is always black vs. white. I'm sick of it.

I don't even consider O'bama black.



And his "winning" a state means little. How many delegates did he take from Hillary? I'm hearing that because of the way Mississippi apportions delegates, he may not get as many as a simple percentage of the popular vote.

[Peregrine Took]

5. Only 90% of the black vote??

[goforit]

6. Go OBAMA!!!!!

[Up2Late]

8. Yay! Obama wins another Open Primary in a State a Democrat hasn't won since 1976!!!

And that was only because they were voting for another Southerner, the former Georgia Governor, Jimmy Carter.

Woopty-feaken-do.:eyes:

[itcfish]

9. Woopdy Do

How many democrats in Miss who are not black?

[snooper2]

10. Mississippi doesn't matter right...

You folks kill me...I can't wait till Hillary is forced to pack her bags...

[itcfish]

11. Miss. Matter for Obama

But not for the Generals. That's all.