Obama wins Mississippi With Magic 61 Percent

Hey folks,

Happy hump day to you. As expected, Obama wins Mississippi. Like in Wyoming, he wins with 61 percent of the vote. The AP breakdown goes like this.

Obama won roughly 90 percent of the black vote in Mississippi on Tuesday, but only about one-quarter of the white vote. That was similar to the breakdown that helped him win South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana before losing to Clinton in Texas and Ohio, which has similar voter demographics to neighboring Pennsylvania.

"Now we look forward to campaigning in Pennsylvania and around the country," Maggie Williams, Clinton's campaign manager, said in a written statement that congratulated Obama on his victory.

"I'm confident that once we get a nominee, the party is going to be unified," Obama said in claiming his victory in Mississippi.

You have to win the nomination first. Which means you have to survive the convention. As I keep telling you folks, the Clintons will lie cheat and steal to get and keep power. They really want Hillary to be President. So it seems, Florida will be voting AGAIN, this time with mail in votes. {Laughing} This means Hillary will go after those delegates that have already pledged to Obama. Which means they will help Gov. Spitzer weather this mess he got himself into, at least until his superdelegate vote for her counts. This means they will mess with the Convention itself. Wait and see folks.

Clinton was attending a presidential forum in Washington on Wednesday. Obama planned to be in his hometown of Chicago.

With 99 percent of the vote counted, Obama had 61 percent to 37 percent for Clinton.

Obama picked up at least 17 of Mississippi's 33 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, with five more to be awarded. He hoped for a win sizable enough to erase most if not all of Clinton's 11-delegate gain from last week, when she won three primaries.

The Illinois senator had 1,596 delegates to 1,484 for Clinton. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination. With neither appearing able to win enough delegates through primaries and caucuses to claim the nomination, the importance of nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who will attend the national convention as unelected superdelegates is increasing.

Obama leads Clinton among pledged delegates, 1,385-1,237 in The Associated Press count, while the former first lady has an advantage among superdelegates, 247-211.

Blacks, who also supported Obama in overwhelming numbers in earlier primaries, accounted for roughly half the ballots cast in Mississippi, according to interviews with voters leaving polling places. About one in six Democratic primary voters were independents, and Clinton and Obama split their support. Another 10 percent of voters were Republican, and they preferred Clinton by a margin of 3-1.

Rush had NOTHING to do with that one. {Smile}

Exit polls showed blacks accounted for a majority of the ballots in all but Louisiana, where they represented a plurality. Obama's share of the black vote in those states ranged from 78 percent in South Carolina to 88 percent in Georgia, while Clinton won the white vote with ease.

Other than Pennsylvania, the remaining primaries are in Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota.

Did you catch the subliminal message here? Think about it. If you read this article by the AP, does it not seem to suggest at the end, that Obama has peaked? Now with the majority of States to come, they are mostly White, and therefore Clinton will win them? Seems like a hidden message is saying that with this "fact" and with the fact that Clinton leads in the superdelegates, she will win the nomination? Maybe this is why the one in second, is offering the one in first the Vice Presidency. Just a thought.
Peter

Sources:
AP- Obama wins Mississippi Democratic race