Barack Obama Wins Mississippi as Expected

Posted on March 11, 2008

Barack Obama has won Mississippi, as expected. The exit polls show that race played a very large factor. 48% of voters were white. Hillary won 70% of white voters; Barack Obama won 26%. 50% of voters were black. Obama won 92% of black voters, Clinton won only 8%. According to CNN's exit poll, 13% of the voters were Republicans, 77% of whom voted for Hillary. Indpendents favored Obama slighlty, 51%-48%. Those numbers are a huge improvement for Hillary.

Barack Obama talked to Wolf Blitzer after CNN called the race for him and he sure didn't seem happy. He didn't smile hardly at all; perhaps he's exhausted. Or perhaps he's still grumpy about that 3 am Saturday Night Live skit. In any event, he didn't have much to say really. He rebuffed Wolf's attempt to find out if he would ask Hillary to be his VP if he won, saying that's it's too early to tell and "Hillary would be on anyone's short list."

So, Mississippi is over. Obama's surrogates are going negative big time on Hillary calling her untruthful, deceitful etc. Is this what it's going to be like until Pennsylvania? I suppose we can debate what's going to happen with the Florida and Michigan delegates. That's always good for some angst.