reposting this since i think it says a lot.

Is your opinion of John McCain:
Category % Total Clinton Obama
Strongly favorable 13 76 23
Somewhat favorable 24 54 44
Somewhat unfavorable 24 34 66
Strongly unfavorable 35 25 75

yet another piece OF EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

!!!HILLMENTUM™!!!!

Take that, race baiting Team Hillary! You can't KKK your way to the nomination.

Going by CNN's exit poll (using vote by sex), I came up with:

Obama 59%
Clinton 41%

Love it. idiotic for VP!(with apologies to Sinbad.)

Mississippi may no longer be "burning" as Obama wins there!

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/03/obama-continues-momentum-and.html#links

Although Obama is projected winner by MSNBC with that check mark. With 4% of the precinct in Hillary's carrying a 7% lead over him at the moment. Hopefully that changes. :S

Disaster.

Obama is a luck f**k to be black. He doesn't know a shit about what it takes be a white like 43 other folks in this country and still become a became president.

I thought we didn't have to live with the sins of our fathers. Little did I know Geraldine's of the world are still not DEAD.

GO Obama!!! White unlucky me supports black lucky you.

why are they calling it for him already? less than 100 votes separate them!

Usually rural votes are reported first. 11% of the Limbaugh Repubs probably in villages are showing up in the early returns.

Major towns report much later. We saw Obama closing about 10 points while the last 20% of the precinct reportings came in.

as of 9:38pm edt.... obama is betting hillary by 5,000 votes:(

23% of the vote has been counted.

CNN....MSNBC....FOX says obama has won.....

can't wait to see how much he won by when it is all said and done.

she is losing by 12,000 votes.... not looking good for hillary..... 56% obama and 42% for clinton and 29% of the vote has been counted so far.... all news channels are calling it for obama.

he could reach 60% of the vote when it is all said and done:(

7:45pm edt

Mississippi

Updated 1 minute ago

County: Table | Map
Exit Poll
Obama 53,920 55% 6 31%
reporting
Clinton 41,419 43% 3

Here ya go Guys from CNN not more than 5 Min ago!!!!

I'll raise you that, Josh Hussein.

I think he'll win 62-38.

Do you see how the Hillary argument works?

Let's look at the argument they are building -- (more Okidoke ahead):

1. If you support Barack, it is because he is black.

2. If you support Hillary, it is not because you have a problem with Barack being black, it is because he is simply not as qualified as she is.

(Despite his leading the contest by every objective measure available to mere mortal rank-and-file voters. I am pretty sure that people were thinking about his qualifications to be president when they voted, in fact, I am pretty sure that is the whole point of a vote. But perhaps Super Delegates also have Super Powers of Perception we don't?)

3. Ah! But we Democrats are civilized and enlightened compared to our Republican brethren. WE may be ready for a Person of Color to be President -- but the average American just isn't ready. (Drop voice to a whisper) The truth is... Americans won't vote for a black candidate. They won't vote for Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

(Ignore the fact that Americans of every color, stripe, shape, and creed already ARE voting for him -- Obama brings over Independents and Republicans support that Hillary cannot hope to win over, he will carry EVERY Blue State she does -- yes, including Big States -- plus he puts a bunch of Red States into play, creating tentpole opportunities across the board for Obama Dems down ticket.)

Yawn. Running out of Kitchen Sink, Hillary?

Good news for Obama from Texas. CNN reports that Obama wins the caucus handily, beats Clinton overall in delegates:

"After a comprehensive review of these results, CNN estimates that Obama won more support from Texas caucus-goers than Clinton. Based on the state party's tally, Obama's caucus victory translates into 38 national convention delegates, compared to 29 for Clinton.

And though Clinton won more delegates than Obama in the primary, 65 to 61, Obama's wider delegate margin in the caucuses gives him the overall statewide delegate lead, 99 to 94 -- or once superdelegate endorsements are factored in, 109 to 106."

Iam getting tired of the MSM saying Hillary could win NC, NC is going to Obama. GET OVER IT!!! GAH

HillaryClinton08: that figure (62%) represents precincts reporting, not voting population.

I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning, pour myself a big cup of coffee, and start scanning the Web for some Democratic leaders with some huevos who have spoken up to try and end this thing.

I hope I find some.

82 percent of the precincts have voted...

59% obama
39% clinton

he won big....

time to move forward

I voted for Obama today and I must say I'm very disappointed in the results. I think he may eventually carry MS 60-40 but he should have done better. My read on why he didn't is the following.

1) I have to hand it to the Clintons. For once they took this meaningless red state more seriously than Barack did. He made two appearances one in Columbia and one in Jackson while the Clintons collectively made about 10 appearances. I think her hard work paid off and may have gotten her a delegate or two tonight. Her one big mistake was probably the Barack as vice president argument that Bill and Hillary both made here which was not only contemptuous but blatantly dismissive and served to further distance her from the African American community.

2) The most heavily Republican districts, districts 1 + 4, didn't have any real reason to vote Republican so a lot of them, at the request of Mr Limbaugh, crossed over and voted for Hillary. This really makes me wonder how much of an affect freelance Republican votes are going to have on this race from here on out.

3) I think another tactical mistake that Barack made was is choice of location for his rallies. By having his one big rally at JSU, a traditionally black school, he sent the message to a lot of white democrats that he was a running to be a president for blacks instead of being a president who happens to be black. I believe this turned off a lot of white democrats who would have supported him. Had he done just one event in a predominantly white area it would have gone a long way.

I have to admit though I am more than a little bothered by the exit polls that seem to indicate a much higher level of racism in MS than I had thought. Still, thanks to a 90-10 split among African Americans Barack will carry MS by a significant margin. Given his numbers with white voters though I would place is chances in the general somewhere between slim and none.

Clinton most likely would of barely gotten 30 percent if it was a closed primary.

MSNBC: Pre-election poll showed Obama with 14% lead, so he outperforms the polls again. Something to look out for as PA approaches.

Barack Obama 223,041 60% 15

Hillary Clinton 143,643 38% 12

91% of precincts reporting

He will have 9 delegate advantage in MS, enough to wipe out her Ohio "big" state delegate win.

It's clear with about 80,000 more on popular vote tonight, he has added a few more pledged delegates (16 more in my calculations) including the california swing since March 4. So he now has a overall lead of 170-175 pledged delegateds. Even if Hillary wins by 25 delegate margin in PA. He will retain the 150 delegate lead going to NC primary;

o new update on the count. 95% Reporting
Obama 234,594 60%
Clinton 148,673 38%

That's why Obama won landslide victories in Idaho, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Maine ... all the states with a huge population of blacks and latte drinkers.

Hank, there is no "trend" there at all, ominous or otherwise, for either candidate.

FYI Barack Obama won by blowout margins in Wisconsin, Virginia and Delaware, and also took Missouri and Connecticut.

These are all very White states, all primaries (two of them closed primaries), and Obama won every single one of them, carrying a large percentage or even outright majority of the White vote in each.

White voters in State A don't necessarily vote like White voters in State B. Don't get carried away with misleading "trends" when a moment's analysis shows them to have no backing.

Fun stat update: The Obama win in Mississippi is close to the amount Hillary got out of the Texas primary. 97k + for Obama today and i dont know how big the last district is so he could pull out over 100k. Hillary got just under 101k in Texas.

oops, I mean four more.

61-37 100,000 vote margin.

Time for Hillary to leak a muslim photo, yell at the cameras, compare him to Karl Rove, darken his picture in a new tv ad, and endorse McCain.

Oh Wait, she already did that.

13% voted for Hillary and she endorsed McCain, may be she is planning to run for congress for MS in November. Her date has definetly expired in New York.

may Hillary is waiting to see if Obama gets assassinated?

You don't need to be contributing to this racial divide storyline. As anyone who has ever actually lived in the South could tell you, for a black candidate to get 3 in 10 white votes against a white candidate is DAMN GOOD!!! A practically titanic shift from where things were 20 years ago.

Idjits.

Folks, I'm really concerned at the way Obama's achievements are being treated in the press. The front page of Wednesday's New York Times has not a word about Mississippi. The online homepage has the applicable headline in small type near the bottom of the page, and, when clicked, the first paragraph runs thus:

"With a six-week breather before the next primary, Hillary Rodham Clinton turned her attention to Pennsylvania and beyond to counter the latest in a string of victories by Barack Obama in Southern states with large black voting blocs."

It then goes on largely to dismiss the Mississippi event. The piece (from the AP, not even the Times's own writers) is studded with this sort of thing:

"He 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."

Mon Dieu.

Conservatively speaking (so to speak), if only half of Clinton's Mississippi crossover vote can be ascribed to Limbaugh-inspired Republicans seeking to sully Obama and (In their wildest dreams) help Hillary wrest the nomination from him (and thus assure a McCain victory in November), the Obama margin would have been even greater.

Checking the RCP site, I note that in 20 states (SC, AK, ID, ND, VT, KS, CO, MN, GA, IL, NE, LA, DC, VA, MD, HI, VT, WY, MS, WA) since the opening contests in IA and NH, Clinton has failed to clear 40% of the vote. And ten of those were primaries. In only TWO states (AR, OK) has Obama failed to clear the 40% hurdle. He cleared 40% in NY, she didn't come close in IL. He is clearly running a 50 state contest and is competitive across the country. She has written off a huge swath of the country in her quest to be President of the Blue States of America.

One question: Washington, Nevada, Maine, and Iowa have not released popular votes for their caucuses. Will they be doing that? It is concerning that in running the popular vote total without those states the Obama margin is diminished - and people say the superdelegates will be looking at that total as they make their decisions. Anybody know anything?

Yay Obama. Way to go on winning MS.

As far as the whole GD this goes, I'm now in the camp that feels that it was completely intentional. And it's sad that she's now basically making the claim that all of his accomplishments in life and in this election, are due to the color of his skin and some sort of affirmative action.

So according to Hillary, now:
Small States don't matter
Big States that voted for Obama don't matter
Caucus states don't matter
Primary states that voted for Obama don't matter
The AA vote doesn't matter
All of Obama's votes don't matter

glad to see the press is finally largely ignorning obama's win from yesterday. now he can get a taste of his own medicine.