The Dem Mississippi Primary Race was about Race

Exit polling from Mississippi shows that skin color mattered in the Democrat primary.

From the Associated Press:

Whites largely shunned Barack Obama in Mississippi's Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday as the Deep South showed once again its reluctance to embrace him across racial lines.

While 92 percent of blacks lined up behind the Illinois senator, 70 percent of whites supported Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to an exit poll of voters conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks.

Only next door in Alabama and in Arkansas, where she was first lady when husband Bill Clinton was governor, has she had a wider margin among whites, while his black support has been stronger only in his home state. That made Mississippi's voting one of the year's most racially divided contests.

That division was all Obama needed because voters were split about evenly between the two races.

While Obama has typically received lopsided numbers of black votes and Clinton, a New York senator, generally has won among whites, Tuesday's racial polarization was stark.

Nearly four in 10 blacks said race was important in choosing their candidate. Of that group, nine in 10 supported Obama.

Among whites, a quarter said they considered race when deciding their vote. Eight in 10 of them voted for Clinton.

An AMAZING 92 percent of blacks voted for Obama, yet only 36 percent of blacks said race was important to their votes.

A solid 70 percent of whites voted for Hillary, yet just 25 percent of whites said that race was important to their votes.

It seems to me that the voters in the Mississippi primary didn't respond honestly in exit polls, or they aren't being honest with themselves.

It appears that race played a huge factor in the election. Race appears to have been much more significant than voters would admit.

So are the Dems racist?

I don't know. It's highly unlikely, but the appearance of voting along racial lines could just be a coincidence.

What's not a coincidence is the way the Associated Press presents the voting patterns.

Look at this headline:



I think it's odd that the headline isn't something more general about the racial divide in the Mississippi primary. Why take the angle that "Obama gets scant white support in MS"?

The headline could just have easily have read "Hillary gets scant black support in MS."

Actually, that would have been more accurate, since only 8 percent of blacks voted for Hillary.

The headline seems like race-baiting to me.

Oooh, not many whites in Mississippi voted for Obama. Racism!

The truth is even fewer blacks in Mississippi voted for Hillary. Obama got close to the entire black vote. More whites voted for Obama than blacks voted for Hillary, yet the AP headline focuses on whites failing to support Obama.

The lib media are definitely in Obama's corner.