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THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW - March 13, 2008
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Obama Wins Mississippi Primary
By Michael Luo and Jeff Zeleny
The New York Times
Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
on Tuesday in Mississippi's Democratic primary, the final
contest before what promises to be a crucial showdown in
Pennsylvania in six weeks.
This would be Mr. Obama's second straight victory - he
won the Wyoming caucuses over the weekend - enabling him
to rebound from a trio of popular vote losses to Mrs.
Clinton in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island.
Mr. Obama's lead in Mississippi was built on a wave of
support among blacks, who made up half those who turned
out to vote Tuesday, according to surveys conducted by
the television networks and The Associated Press of voters
leaving polling places. The surveys found that roughly 90
percent of black voters supported Mr. Obama, but only a
third of white voters supported him, suggesting a racially
polarized electorate in the state.
"It's just another win in our column and we are getting
more delegates," Mr. Obama said in an interview on CNN
from Chicago, where he arrived Tuesday evening after spend-
ing the day campaigning in Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
"I am grateful to the people of Mississippi for the wonder-
ful support. Wat we've tried to do is steadily make sure
that in each state we are making the case about the need
for change in this country."
The stage is now set for Pennsylvania on April 22, which
opens the final stage of the Democratic nominating fight,
with nine other states and territories left to weigh in
before the convention in late August.
Mr. Obama had been expected to win resoundingly in
Mississippi, a state where 36 percent of the population
is black, the highest percentage in the nation. Mr. Obama
has enjoyed overwhelming support among black voters and
won all the other contests in the Deep South by large
margins.
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While Mrs. Clinton stumped in the state last week and
former President Bill Clinton dropped in over the weekend,
the Clinton campaign had mostly been looking ahead to
Pennsylvania, with its 158 delegates at stake.
Indeed, Mrs. Clinton has not been in Mississippi since
Friday, and she was campaigning Tuesday in Pennsylvania,
while Mr. Obama started Tuesday in Mississippi but went
to Pennsylvania as well.
Mr. Obama stopped in at a diner in Greenville, Miss.,
on Tuesday morning, an hour after polls opened in the
state, putting in a final appeal to voters and ordering
a breakfast of hard-scrambled eggs, turkey sausage,
wheat toast and grits.
"I promise when I'm president of the United States, I'll
come back to the Delta," he said. "You all keep me in
your prayers now."
It is unclear how much difference the late campaigning
had. The early surveys of voters, conducted by Edison
Media Research and Mitofsky International, showed that
6 out of 10 Democratic primary voters made up their
minds more than a month ago.
Mrs. Clinton was in Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday where she
addressed more than 2,000 people inside an auditorium
downtown and continued to aggressively take on Mr. Obama,
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But much of the sparring between the two campaigns on
Tuesday came over remarks made by a Clinton supporter,
Geraldine Ferraro, the Democrats' vice presidential
nominee in 1984, that were published last Friday in The
Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif. In her comments, Ms.
Ferraro accused the media of being sexist and said, "If
Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position."
Mrs. Clinton disavowed the comments on Tuesday in an
interview with The Associated Press in Harrisburg.
"I do not agree with that," she said. "It is regrettable
that any of our supporters on both sides, because we've
both had that experience, say things that kind of veer
off into the personal."
Mr. Obama told The Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., that
the comments were "divisive" and "patently absurd."
Mr. Obama entered Tuesday's contest with 1,510.5 delegates,
compared to 1,403 for Mrs. Clinton, according to a project-
ion by The New York Times. That differential will not
change significantly after Mississippi, with only 33
delegates at stake and Mrs. Clinton expected to scoop up
a good number because they are awarded proportionally.
Mississippi's primary is open, so voters can choose which
primary to vote in.
Voting was steady throughout the day and up to 150,000
people were expected to show up at the polls, said Pamela
Weaver, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi secretary of
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Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee,
won the primary for his party, bringing him even closer
by The New York Times's count to the number of delegates
needed to officially clinch the nomination.
In the closing days of the primary race, Mrs. Clinton had
been raising the idea that Democrats struggling to decide
between the candidates could have it both ways, implying
that Mr. Obama would make a suitable running mate. Mr.
Obama aggressively rejected that idea as he campaigned
in Mississippi on Monday, telling voters: "With all due
respect, I've won twice as many states as Senator Clinton."
Still, according to preliminary surveys of voters leaving
the polls, not all voters seemed eager to rule out the
notion. Six in 10 Obama supporters said that he should
select Mrs. Clinton for vice president if he ultimately
wins the nominating fight. And 4 in 10 Clinton voters
said she should choose Mr. Obama if he she is victorious.
Anita Nichols, who came to see Mr. Obama on the eve of the
primary at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus,
said she was delighted that voters in her state had an
opportunity to be heard in the Democratic presidential
contest. She said she hoped a convincing Mississippi
victory would nudge him along in the protracted fight.
"I'm praying that he wins. I really am," Ms. Nichols said
in an interview, an Obama button fastened to her lapel.
"This country is ready for change, but it's not just him.
The president can only do so much, he's got to surround
himself with qualified people and the citizens have to
work, too."
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Jeff Zeleny reported from Mississippi and Katharine Q.
Seelye from Harrisburg, Pa.
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