Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at the Gamesa Wind Corp. in Fairless Hills, Miss., Tuesday, March 11, 2008.
Based on exit polls the AP has called Mississippi an electoral victory for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi’s Democratic primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month’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.
The Associated Press made its call based on surveys of voters as they left the polls.
Mississippi had 33 national convention delegates at stake, and Obama 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.
Obama began the night with 1,579 delegates, to 1,473 for Clinton. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination.
Neither of the two rivals appears able to win enough delegates through primaries and caucuses to prevail in their historic race for the nomination, a development that has elevated the importance of nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who will attend next summer’s national convention as unelected superdelegates.
Obama leads Clinton among pledged delegates, 1,368-1,226 in The Associated Press count, while the former first lady has an advantage among superdelegates, 247-211.
There was little suspense about the Mississippi outcome, and both Clinton and Obama spent part of their day campaigning in Pennsylvania, which has 158 delegates at stake in a primary on April 22.
Looks like a fight to the finish for Obama and Hillary as Obama wins by 18 or 19 points in Mississippi. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Democrats may very well have a “BROKERED CONVENTION” this fall.
Neither Hillary nor Obama will quit prior to the convention and the delegate math continues to read deadlock. There will be lobbying and cajoling of Super Delegates and there may be a push for a re-do election in Michigan and/or Florida. But, these remedies WILL NOT break out a majority for either of them.
There will be a DEAL or the Democrat Convention will have to VOTE in Denver.
Anyone want to bet who will win in this scenario?
NOT OBAMA……..
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