…Piling up the delegates.

Obama shocked no one and took a relatively uncontested and tame primary in Mississippi tonight. With loads of black Democrats energized about Obama’s run, this was his prime territory and a state that Hillary stayed away from in order to play the expectations game well. She let him have it.

Not to say that the win isn’t insignificant. Any victory by either candidate means  - usually - a plurality of delegates from the state. This will hold true for Obama, who is expected to gain anywhere from 5-9 delegates more than HRC. That’s huge when the long range scenarios put the two Dems within 100 delegates of each other at the end of the road - after Puerto Rico.

Glancing at the exits shows that there was a definite racial tinge to the primary. Hillary blew away Obama with white voters, gaining 72% support. Obama took over 90% of black Dems, a margin that’s actually in line with some of his other Southern victories.

The most interesting number of the night came from the FOX exits. It shows that 52% - a solid majority - of Dem voters in Miss. see Obama as the more “qualified”candidate to be commander-in-chief.  Some racial backlash to the Clinton campaign’s “VP Obama” chatter?

The AP exit polls.  

And in post-victory comments to CNN, Obama openly discussed the thought of naming Hillary as his running mate., Said that she would be “a great choice” for Veep. Better and better…