NPR: NPR Projects That Obama Wins Mississippi Primary

NPR Projects That Obama Wins Mississippi Primary

Based on early returns and exit polls, NPR projects Barack Obama will win the Democratic primary in Mississippi tonight.

8:28 PM ET | 03-11-2008 | permalink

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It seems unconscionable to make this out to be a race-based nominating process. I understand that you might cover the history of the south and how WHITES in Mississippi wouldn???t vote for a black man and that blacks are empowered by a black candidate, but to make it out to be a candidacy based on the black vote? How can this be the case? As a race based candidate Obama would be a loosing candidate not a winning one. How do you explain the white vote for Obama in VERY white states like Wyoming and Wisconsin? Shame on NPR for promulgating false unfounded claims about Obama, I guess Kennedy won because he was Catholic? This was an obstacle not a help to his presidential bid, just like being black is an obstacle for Obama not a benefit.

AUSTIN, Texas is my home and we are 14% black and yet we voted overwhelming for Obama. I guess since I voted for Obama I???m now a black man too? For God sakes please cover the real issue and stop making up stories. Obama represents the hope that we can go in a new direction, be respectable again to the world, create a future that builds the middle class and secures basic needs for the underclass of our society. Sure, blacks vote for Obama, but SO MANY OTHERS. And I???m sure the 55 million he raised in February came from blacks, right? This is CRAZY thinking! The real story is why so many white middle and lower income people in the United States find Obama so compelling that they are ignoring his race and voting for the person instead of the VERY white and VERY connected and VERY well known Clinton. Stop the prejudicial reporting and report things that matter and reflect reality!

Notice by my name that I am the VERY white, full blood German Texas Randolph Wilhelm and I am offended by your comments about race.

Sent by Randolph Wilhelm | 12:24 AM ET | 03-12-2008

Sent by Randolph Wilhelm: AUSTIN, Texas is my home and we are 14% black and yet we voted overwhelming for Obama.

Thanks, once again, for reminding everyone about who is black and who is white. But you have to stop supporting Barack Obama by constantly bringing up the racist issue.

It's always the Barack supporters who begin the racist debate, one way or the other.

And we're all getting tired of hearing about racisim everytime Barack Obama's name is mentioned.

Then, again, if Barack Obama is elected president, America is going to hear nothing but racist issues for four solid years.

Which is exactly why a lot of Americans aren't going to vote for Barack Obama in November.

There are too many issues on the table facing America without spending four years debating racism, and getting nothing else done.

And after four years of debating racism, you won't even accomplish having solved the debate on racism. You Barack supporters can't even get past the argument about the argument about racism.

The whole Barack Obama issue has turned into gridlock. No wonder Barack Obama gets away with saying nothing. Every times someone asks a question, it's a debate about racism again.

fred camorra call

Sent by fred camorra call | 10:40 AM ET | 03-12-2008

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