OBAMA’S VICTORY IN MISSISSIPPI
Chika Onyeani
Wednesday March 12th, 2008
With 99% of results announced in Mississippi, Barack Obama had 247,456 votes or 60%, while Hillary Clinton had 153,745 votes or 38%. That’s 22 percentage points higher. Polls before the election had said that Obama would win with about 15%. Interesting thing also, according to MSNBC exit polls, Blacks constituted 50% of the Democratic electorate. There has been talk about the Catholic vote going overwhelmingly for Clinton, but according to the exit poll, Catholics constituted 8% of the voters, and 54% voted for Clinton, while 42% voted for Obama. Another interesting point is that Republicans made up 13% of the voters, and they overwhelmingly supported Clinton with 76% to 24% of the vote. What do you make of that?
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