Mississippi Primary-President
Democratic REPORTING: 99% Candidate Votes % D Obama, Barack 253,441 61% 20 Clinton, Hillary 154,852 37% 11 TOTAL VOTES 408,293	Republican REPORTING: 99% Candidate Votes % D McCain, John 111,953 79% 38 Huckabee, Mike 17,676 12% 0 Paul, Ron 5,487 4% 0 TOTAL VOTES 135,116
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MSNBC has projected Senator Barack Obama the winner of the Mississippi primary.

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. Read on...