Obama won Mississippi, by 61% to 38%, picking up 19 delegates to Clinton's 14. Exit polling showed Clinton winning in Republican areas of the state, likely due to significant Republican crossover voters. Which means that Obama's margin could have been higher if Rush Limbaugh had not called on Republicans to cross over and vote for Hillary.
New polls in Pennsylvania show Clinton maintaining a double digit lead. Obama has his work cut out in Pennsylvania if he wants to make it close. There is a significant amount of time, however as Pennsylvania's primary (the next primary) is on 26 April, so there is some time.
In other political news, Geraldine Ferraro resigned her position in the Clinton campaign, but not after stating that her statement “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position” was a "statement of fact". Apparently some version of this argument was repeated over the last few weeks in various media outlets. Most white voters support Obama not because he is black, but because they believe he is a leader, who can bring people together to get things done.
Is this similar to language used by Bill Clinton after New Hampshire primary in South Carolina? By the way, Ferraro made a similar statement in 1984 about Jesse Jackson. She also stated that she whould not have been the VP nominee in 1984 if she had not been a woman. She can say this about herself, but maybe she should not speak for the millions of white and Latino people who have voted for Obama in the election so far.
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