MSNBC project Obama wins Mississippi!

[salbi]

[democrattotheend]

1. Yay!

What are they saying about it? Are they dismissing it as predictable?

[nomorewhopper]

24. congrats obama

WOOT

[Breeze54]

2. Hey there, salbi. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

Got any stats? Links? Numbers?

[TwilightGardener]

3. GOBAMA!!!!! Wooooo!!!

[maddiejoan]

4. Congrats!

To the Obama team for race-baiting their way to another win!

[Georgie_92]

8. I think you got that backwards.

[Faygo Kid]

10. It's "their," maddiejoan. And after Ferraro today, what the hell are you talking about?

Typical, and expected. Bring it.

[maddiejoan]

13. I'm talking about Ferraro

who made her comment on Feb 28th. Why did Axelrod wait to frame this as racist today? Was it because of Mississippi's primary? Or was it because of Thorne resigning?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5025635&mesg_id=5025635

[fujiyama]

23. So are you defending Ferraro's comments?

I would have thought better of you, but then again you also claim Obama race baited in SC, something I have seen no evidence about.

[maddiejoan]

25. He very much race-baited in SC

and I'm defending Ferraro's comment in it's full context as an answer to a posed question.

I'm sorry that you are so ready to throw mud all over a Democratic Party icon.

I'm not.

[cloudythescribbler]

22. What did the Obama "team" do to race-bait this time? Paid off Geraldine Ferraro?

[maddiejoan]

27. They twisted the context of what she said

and waited until today to do it.

The comment was a perfectly reasonable response to a posed question in a February 28th interview.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/11/756868.aspx

<snip>
But it's important to remember that Ferraro made her comments at the time when many thought the Clinton campaign was about to go under.

The article ran with the headline, "Geraldine Ferraro lets her emotions do the talking."

This is the quote the campaigns are fighting over:

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she continued. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." Ferraro does not buy the notion of Obama as the great reconciler.

Farber says the parentheses "(of any color)" is a direct quote.
<snip>

[cloudythescribbler]

28. Ferraro's "perfectly reasonable" comment parrallels a similar brain fart about JJackson in the 80s

[Captain Hilts]

5. Largest percentage of black voters in the nation. He won 8 of 10. nt

[goclark]

12. Are they saying how many AA voters were women?

Just wanted to make sure that the Women went for Obama! :bounce:

[SoFlaJet]

15. no Mook

91% to 9

[keep_it_real]

6. 33 delegates tied to March 11 primary

Open primary: 40 total delegates*
33 tied to March 11 primary, 7 superdelegates

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#MS

[usregimechange]

7. Kick!!!

[bluestateguy]

9. MISSISSIPPI QUEEN!

Oh, wait, maybe that's not the right song....

[whatchamacallit]

21. Classic, great big guitars and cowbell that rivals DFTR

:smoke:

[OhioChick]

11. Good!

Another win!

[localroger]

14. Not news, really. The question is by how much.

This "wins state X" thing is important in the GE but pretty meaningless in the Dem primary because it's all proportional; you can "win" a state and pick up only 1 delegate (kinda like what happened to HRC a few days ago). The question is what's the margin -- how many delegates does he pick up? What happens to the gap?

[LisaL]

26. Well, here is CNN link to the results (in progress).

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#MS
I know they projected this, but based in this early results, it sure doesn't look so far that Obama is gonna win by a huge margin.

[no name no slogan]

16. In other news, WATER IS WET

Mississippi was a gimmee. If he didn't win there, he would be in serious trouble

[superkia]

20. Just like this time last year, the election was a gimmee for Clinton.

You never know whats going to take place so I think Obama should be happy to win another state if he pulls it out. Before everyone would say that Iowa would tell us who would win but that was back when Clinton was way ahead in most states, as soon as the people started voting with higher turnout and Clinton was losing in polls, the rules changed. Every state Obama wins, the GE field goal gets pushed farther away from him. Every time Clinton loses a state, the GE field goal gets scooted closer for her. We wont know anything until the end, the elite and powerful are corrupt and don't like losing.

Who knows what will happen!

[Fox Mulder]

17. By how much?

What's the percentages?

[goclark]

18. It makes me happy to believe that all of us that are cheering

are probably some male,some female
some Black/White/Asian

some Gay some not

some young, some old

some rich, some poor
some red states/some blue states

and we don't care what we are because we ALL want Change in our country.

You make this African American woman very happy tonight. :bounce:

:hug:

[Olney Blue]

19. Congratulations to Senator Obama and all his supporters here.

:hi: