Obama Captures Mississippi Primary, Clinton Denounce Ferraro’s Statement
March 12, 2008
(Long Island, N.Y.) Barack Obama won the Mississippi primary with relative ease after capturing 90 percent of the black vote while salvaging 25 percent of the white people for the state to add majority of the 33 delegates up for grabs in Mississippi and extend his sizeable lead against top rival Hilary Clinton.
Early returns coming in from over 25 percent of Mississippi’s total number of precincts have Obama leading with 58 percent to Clinton’s 42 percent. Current delegate count stands with Obama gathering 1,585 to Clinton’s 1,473. Both candidates need to secure at least 2,025 to win the Democratic Party nomination during the Democratic National Convention to be held this summer.
Meanwhile, New York Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton denounced Geraldine Ferraro’s comments regarding Barack Obama and his race by saying, “I do not agree with that,” the former first lady also added “It’s regrettable that any of our supporters — on both sides, because we both have this experience — say things that kind of veer off into the personal. We ought to keep this on the issues. There are differences between us on approaches to issues such as health care and energy.”
The controversy sparked after Ferraro, who serves as a member of Clinton’s fundraising team and was a Democratic Party vice presidential candidate on 1994 said, “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. 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.”
In an interview with CNN yesterday, Obama countered Ferraro’s statement and her involvement in the Clinton campaign in saying, “We’ve been very measured in terms of how we talk about Senator Clinton, I’m not sure that we’ve been getting that same approach from the Clinton campaign. Obviously I think I would be the better nominee, But I have been careful to say that I think Senator Clinton is a capable person and that should she win the nomination, obviously I would support her.”
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Ferraro: Obama’s lucky to be winning just because he’s black.
Rendell: Obama’s worthy but can’t win Pa because he’s black
Bill Clinton: Obama = Jackson; they’re black.
Finally the Clinton campaign speaks with passion and hope on an issue: that racial profiling will prevail in the election.
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