Obama Wins Mississippi

Posted on March 11, 2008

Mississippi had 33 national convention delegates at stake, and Obama hoped for a win sizable enough to erase most if not all of Clinton’s 11-delegate gain from last week, when she won three primaries.

Obama began the night with 1,579 delegates, to 1,473 for Clinton. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination.

Neither of the two rivals appears able to win enough delegates through primaries and caucuses to prevail in their historic race for the nomination, a development that has elevated the importance of nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who will attend next summer’s national convention as unelected superdelegates.

Obama leads Clinton among pledged delegates, 1,368-1,226 in The Associated Press count, while the former first lady has an advantage among superdelegates, 247-211.

There was little suspense about the Mississippi outcome, and both Clinton and Obama spent part of their day campaigning in Pennsylvania, which has 158 delegates at stake in a primary on April 22.

On to PA then? That has MUCH more favor towards Hillary, but Obama has plenty of time to close her lead by April 22. It looks like its gonna come down to the super delegates instead of the voice of the people. We’ll see how the Florida debacle goes, but it looks like elected officials may decide this.