Clinton vs Obama: Mississippi Divided
I’m really struck by the differences in this evening’s Mississippi primary. The delegate count wound up being about the same: 17 Obama to Clinton’s 14 or so (there appear to be some yet to be decided).
But looking at the county by county returns, they paint a picture of a state deeply divided on the two candidates.
Tate County (in the northwest) returned 51% for Obama, 46% for Clinton. And that’s as close as it got.
A couple of other counties in the southeast of the state returned similar, though not as close, results. The vast majority of counties, however, reported sharp divisions between the two candidates.
Hinds County, home to Jackson, gave Obama 80% to Clinton’s 18%. Pro-Clinton counties returned similar results - especially the northeast (though they had a much smaller number of voters). Percentages for one candidate in the 60 and 70 percents are the most common, with quite a few counties going to 80% in favor of their candidate (largely Obama).
The delegate count remains fairly stable after this primary (though numbers seem to be changing in California, and Obama appears to have come out ahead in Texas). But, it’s hard not to look at these differences in Mississippi and wonder what’s going on…
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