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Wow, huge racial split:

White Men
Clinton 69%
Obama 30%

White Women
Clinton 74%
Obama 26%

Black Men
Obama 93%
Clinton 7%

Black Women
Obama 89%
Clinton 11%

Give or take a few points, it should, indeed, come in at about Obama 60%-40% Clinton.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:06:40 PM EST
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What do you expect?  It's Mississippi.

Tho' Obama is doing better among White men and women than Clinton among Black men and women.  

Spin Prediction:  any southern state whose name ends in a vowel doesn't count.

by ATinNM on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:10:57 PM EST
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Part of the reason is because 11% of voters were white Republicans, and they split 85-15% for Clinton (surprise, surprise).  Obama actually did quite respectably among white Indies and liberals.

I expected the dramatic racial split in Mississippi.  I still don't quite grok why it was just as dramatic in South Carolina while whites roughly split between the two in Georgia.  Georgia has the young white professionals in ATL, Macon, Augusta and Savannah, but SC has the same in Charleston and the other good-sized cities.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:16:45 PM EST
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I was in the south, as a young lad, during the last years of Jim Crow.

You do NOT want to know my opinion regarding white Republicans in Mississippi.

by ATinNM on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:23:46 PM EST
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Most of my family is from a very little, very white, and ridiculously racist town in northern Georgia called Ila.  I assure you I know what you mean.  Add to that they're 60 miles NE from the country's emerging Black Mecca, and your imagination is all you need.

And, needless to say, we don't communicate much with them.  Jim Crow never packed it in in Ila, Ga.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:26:37 PM EST
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Plus, I went to Florida State, my liberal oasis within spitting distance of South Georgia and Alabama.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:28:17 PM EST
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With 0% of precincts reporting and the vote split 0/0 McCain/Huckabee CNN has called Mississippi for McCain.

LOL

by ATinNM on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:14:36 PM EST
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Feel the Huckaboom!

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:17:15 PM EST
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Huckabust is more like it.
by ATinNM on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:27:31 PM EST
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Nonsene!  McCain is in his last throes!

And remember: He didn't major in math.  He majored in miracles.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:29:05 PM EST
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CNN has the following voter break-out:

DEM:

42% Male
58% Female

17-29 13%
30-44 25%
45-59 32% (!)
60+  29%

GOP:

53% Male (expected)
47% Female

17-29 10%
30-44 19%
45-59 26%
60+ 45%  (expected)

The age/percentage demographics don't bode well for the future of the GOP in Mississippi.

by ATinNM on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:48:06 PM EST
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So the plurality of Dems were late-Boomers and Generation X.  Not terribly surprising.  I guess our plan should be to simply outlive the GOP there.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:52:32 PM EST
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Mass murder is generally considered immoral and is certainly illegal, so I guess we gotta.  ;-)

Not too happy with the 17-29 demographic as it is only DEM+3 but I'll take the rest.

by ATinNM on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:56:18 PM EST
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Yes, but the universities were on Spring Break.  It probably would've been closer to 20% otherwise.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Mar 11th, 2008 at 08:57:48 PM EST
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