Barack Obama Projected Winner In Mississippi Democratic Primary
Mississippi Primary-PresidentDemocraticREPORTING: 99%CandidateVotes%DObama, Barack253,44161%20Clinton, Hillary154,85237%11TOTAL VOTES408,293Republica
Mississippi Primary-President
REPORTING: 99%
REPORTING: 99%
Democratic
Candidate
Votes
%
D
Obama, Barack
253,441
61%
20
Clinton, Hillary
154,852
37%
11
TOTAL VOTES
408,293
Republican
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
Powered by 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...