“Obama wins Mississippi primary”
Barack Obama beat Senetor Hillary Clinton by a wide margin in Mississippi’s Democratic primary Tuesday. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Obama had 61 percent of the vote, compared with Clinton’s 37 percent. Obama won a lot of support from African-American voters. They went for him over Clinton 91-9 percent.The state has a larger proportion of African-Americans than any other state in the country. And black voters make up nearly 70 percent of registered Democrats.
