Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement


Obama extends lead over Clinton with Mississippi win

Premium Article !

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button.

Options

Premium Article !

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the Edinburgh Evening News site.

Subscribe

Registered Article !

To read this article in full you must be registered with the site.

Sign In
Register
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

Published Date: 12 March 2008
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama won the Mississippi Democratic primary to extend his lead over rival Hillary Clinton.
The Illinois senator won 60 per cent of the vote to Mrs Clinton's 38 per cent.

Now the pair face a six-week battle in the run-up to the next contest in Pennsylvania on April 22.

And with only ten contests remaining, the candidates are fighting for every delegate.

Mr Obama said he was "making the case for the need for change in this country".

But neither he nor Mrs Clinton is likely to reach the 2025 needed to clinch the nomination with pledged delegates alone and the race is likely to come down to superdelegates – influential party officials, members of Congress and governors whose votes are not tied to the primary results.

Meanwhile, the issue of race blew up again after Geraldine Ferraro, Democrat vice-presidential nominee in 1984, suggested Mr Obama has been successful only because he is a black man.





The full article contains 170 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
Page 1 of 1

  • Last Updated: 12 March 2008 10:52 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

,

12/03/2008 12:07:30
Comment Removed By Administrator
Reason:
2

,

12/03/2008 13:22:01
Comment Removed By Administrator
Reason:
3

Silence of the Yams,

12/03/2008 13:45:15
He is an exceptionally dull candidate. I see little charisma or substance to him.
4

American,

12/03/2008 20:13:00
#3-silence-Same here! But the media just loves him and continue to give him passes.
5

Wally,

By The Rivers Of Babylon (USA) 13/03/2008 03:24:39
On CNN Ron Paul made comments about Obama during an interview. He said Obama was not really anti-war as he claims to be so that anti-war republicans like his voters have no reason to vote democrat if either Obama or Clinton win the nomination. Its true, but Clinton & Obama always vote for war. Obama has repeatedly voted to fund the wars in the last year, so has Clinton.

But I agree with American that the media has doted on him for years. in fact all of the major players in modern US presidential elections are media creations.

6

Wally,

By The Rivers Of Babylon (USA) 13/03/2008 03:34:10
to make it simple - in US elections, especially presidential elections, but also generally in all American thinking it is organized as follows. Six corporations own & control well over 90% of all US media. Those 6 corporations work for the people who rule. The people who rule speak through the media they made. The people listen and they agree. That is not only how American elections work, that is how all legitimate thinking on any subject occurs in the US (almost).

last year from september to november in every debate among the people who saw the debate they preferred Ron Paul among the Republicans. In early December Paul was polling 10-15%, just a few percentage points below McCain. when big media took over & focused on the candidates and marked the info to a broader audience of people too lazy to watch the debates last year the people in large numbers watched big media & ron paul wasn't allowed to speak much in the debates after january, even barred from some and all of a sudden McCain is the winner. That's how it works. the media speaks and the people agree. it is the best propaganda apparatus ever created by far.

it is rare that the people are recalcitrant and do not agree. In that case a limited quantity of vote fraud can be used to achieve desired results. the system is so complete that we always will agree eventually that the desired results were achieved in all elections because history books for children will say that the desired results occurred and the people will agree then even if they don't agree now.

7

Wally,

By The Rivers Of Babylon (USA) 13/03/2008 03:38:20
let's say once in a while someone gets wise and starts questioning the whole system (like me). here's what happens to them.

http://www.onedollardvdproject.com/Dees%20500/dees-usedtoitp.jpg
8

MGT,

London 14/03/2008 13:28:51
He certainly isn't black, if indeed that is what Geraldine Ferraro called him. With a black father and a white mother, it would be just as logical, though incorrect, to call him white.
Why is it that people, 60 plus years after the Nazis, still think that genes inherited from a black parent count for more than the genes from the white parent?

 

Comment on this Story

 

In order to post comments you must Register or Sign In

 
 
RSS Feed of this article's comments
Delivery formats: RSS, Atom, Javascript & Email
 
  

 
 


Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.