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Obama Picks Up Another Delegate in Mississippi

Monday Mississippi certified the results of its March 11th Democratic primary which was won by Barack Obama. The final results were Obama with 62.51% of the vote and Hillary Clinton at 37.49%. This final result produced a slightly different outcome than the one projected on election night - Obama picked up one delegate and Clinton lost one, a "swing" of two delegates.

So in a race where every delegate seems to count a great deal, Obama ends up with a net gain of seven delegates from Mississippi rather than five. The Obama camp says this puts his pledged delegate lead at 169.

11:45 AM ET | 04- 1-2008 | permalink

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Why did it take so long to count these votes? Zimbabwe had an election this weekend and people are becoming suspicious about election fraud because all of the results haven't been made public yet. Mississippi takes longer to count votes than Zimbabwe?

Sent by Susan | 2:11 PM ET | 04-01-2008

Texas just finalized their votes as well. Not sure what takes so long for this.

Sent by Thomas | 5:30 PM ET | 04-01-2008

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