Cash Michaels, Louisiana Weekly
There was good news, and bad news in Sen. Barack Obama’s convincing March 11 win in Mississippi’s Democratic presidential primary.
African Americans, who doubted Obama’s candidacy just six months ago, gave him an astounding 92 percent of their votes – the most of any primary contest thus far – in his 61 to 37 percent blowout of rival Sen. Hillary Clinton [D-NY].
That mirrors similar trends in Southern primary states like South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana with significant Black voting populations.
