Obama wins another red state

Mississippi is the latest red state won by Barack Obama in a Democratic Party, with a resounding 61 percent of the vote.

Despite having the largest African-American population of any state, President Bush took 60 percent of the 2004 tally.

Once again, look for this state to stay in the Republican column in November.

Who would have thought this being possible, but race may be overshadowing everything else in the contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton. Even AP has taken notice:

Obama seized the lead in the Mississippi primary Tuesday, latest in a string of racially polarized contests across the Deep South in the Democratic presidential campaign and a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.

Obama was winning roughly 90 percent of the black vote but only about one-third of the white vote, extending a pattern that carried him to victory in earlier primaries in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana.

Walter Mondale's running mate in the 1984 presidential election, Hillary supporter Geraldine Ferraro, has placed herself in the imbroglio:

Geraldine Ferraro defended her controversial comment that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign was successful because he was black, telling an interviewer Tuesday that she was being attacked because she was white.

It appears the Democrats, or at least the Hillary wing, wants to hand the general election to John McCain.

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