Obama savors Mississippi Democratic primary win  Not long after polls closed, Fox, MSNBC, the Associated Press and CNN all projected that Sen. Barack Obama was the winner of Mississippi's Democratic. Awaiting harder numbers, CNN did not project Obama until nearly half an hour after closing of the polls.
Obama led by a wide margin in polls leading up to the primary.
33 delegates were up for grabs in Mississippi.
Tuesday's contest was the latest in a string of racially polarized contests across the Deep South. It was also a final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania.
As it stands, Obama is leading Sen. Hillary Clinton in total delegate count by over 100 delegates, per various sources. Neither Obama nor Clinton is likely to reach the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the nomination without help from nearly 800 "superdelegates" -- party officials and insiders free to back any candidate.
Savoring his Mississippi primary victory Tuesday, Obama brushed off the aggressive tactics of Clinton and her supporters, said he'd support her in the fall if she happens to win and predicted a united Democratic party in the general election.
"We've been very measured in terms of how we talk about Senator Clinton," he said on CNN, while adding pointedly, "I'm not sure that we've been getting that same approach from the Clinton campaign."
Asked how he would appeal to Pennsylvania voters who regard Bill Clinton's years in office as good ones for their economy, Obama said he would give President Clinton his due — but would note that job losses overseas and flat wages go back to his administration.
"Many of those trends started even before George Bush took office," he said.
With wire services.
 
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