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Even Wayne Dowdy, the head of the Mississippi Democratic Party, thinks Barack Obama will win his state's primary on Tuesday, and it's Dowdy's job not to take sides. Yet there are good reasons for Obama to be anxiously watching the returns today...
...Black voters in Texas didn't show up in record numbers for Obama - turning out, as a percentage of the vote, in lower numbers than in 2004. The Obama campaign is hoping the low turnout was a one-time fluke; if it wasn't, states like Mississippi, where black voters made up 56% of primary voters in 2004, could get a lot tougher to win for the Illinois Senator - not to mention states like Pennsylvania, where blacks made up roughly...
...Senator Obama will carry Mississippi," Dowdy said in an interview. "But Senator Clinton will be competitive. Senator Clinton will get a number of the delegates because she had a good base in Mississippi...
Some of the upcoming states to vote - including Wyoming on Saturday and Mississippi on March 11 - are likely to swing strongly for Obama, and certainly show no signs of being Clinton blowouts. The same goes for North Carolina on May 6 and Oregon...
...following the speech, when a former student asked him how he believed his role as an educator had furthered civil rights. Moses said that he saw education as a crucial step in expanding rights. “There is nothing radical about voter registration. But bringing voter registration to Mississippi sharecroppers, that was radical,” he said. “Doing math isn’t radical. But teaching kids in the bottom quartile as part of a larger political and cultural process, that’s radical.” Despite the theoretical tone of his address...