Near Miss
As expected, Obama won Mississippi. He has the support of back voters, so the state was made for him. About half the Dem voters there are black. More troubling was the lack of white support, much lower than he's used to. Exit polls showed whites cutting 70/30 for Hillary.
I realize this is Mississippi, and the voters aren't like the rest of the nation, but Obama needs to do a lot better than that to win most states. On the other hand, it is too late for Hillary to win in pledged delegates. All she's really going for now is popular vote, though.
Meanwhile, Al Sharpton keeps threatening the Democrats if they don't do what he says. His latest is that they better not seat Florida delegates. Oddly, he claims this will disenfranchise the voters.
I have to wonder how Obama feels when he sees Al Sharpton in the news crusading on his behalf.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:26 AM
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He has done better, in states so overwhelmingly white that you can almost see the kids want to reach out and touch a black person's hair. Like you said, Mississippi is different (and has been solidly Republican since Nixon's Southern Strategy won them over). I don't think this contest moved any needles at all.
Obama must cringe every time Sharpton opens his mouth- if you're inveighing against the politics of racial division and categorization and "the past"(which was his theme when asked to comment on the Ferraro hoo-ha) its very difficult to have the standard bearer of that approach in your corner.
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