McCain Wins Mississippi!

McCain wins Mississippi with an astounding lead of 56.4% to 42.8%. Considering the history of how Mississippi has voted for presidents in the past, and the trends that we saw throughout the election, it was clear that McCain was going to triumph over Obama in this red state.

The Exit polls did not prove much hope for Obama either. Although a high black turnout was expected for Obama because of his get out the vote efforts, exit polls suggested that only 33% of black voters turned out, and of those 98% of them voted for Obama. Although Obama received 98% of the black vote, the white voters not only had a bigger turnout in this state (62%), but the majority of the white vote (88% of that 62%) voted for McCain. Therefore, the one thing that Obama had going for him in this state, which was the black vote, may not have proved to be enough support for him to steal the state from McCain.

Also, seeing as the Economy was the top issue for the people of Mississippi throughout the election, the exit polls supported that by showing that 60% of voters believe that the economy was the top issue for the election. Of those, 56% of voters believed that McCain could handle it best where as only 44% said that Obama could.

Lastly, of the people who voted by party ID, 40% were democrats, 45% were republicans, and 15% were independents. The democrats clearly favored Obama 89% to 11%, whereas the republicans clearly favored McCain 94% to 6%, but what was interesting about these exit polls were the persuadable voters or the "independents." In most other states, Obama won the independent vote by margins, but in Mississippi the exit polls suggest that McCain took the independent vote 63% to 35%. This is remarkable, considering how influential Obama has been in other states with the persuadable voters. Maybe if Obama would have focused more of his efforts on getting the independent vote, he could have had a better shot at Mississippi.

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Throughout the entire race Mississippi did not seem to budge one time for Senator Obama, even after Senator Obama won the debate at The University of Mississippi, these voters stayed true to the candidate that they believed had the expierence to handle the economy and national security the best- that candidate was John McCain.

1 day to go- John McCain has strong lead in MS

With one day till Mississippi casts there 6 electoral votes for the next president of the United States, it is evident that the state will be giving these votes to John McCain. According to pollster.com McCain leads Obama by 50% to 41%. Although Obama has been trying to focus his efforts on his "get out the vote campaign" this has not seemed to effect the strong lead McCain has over Obama in the state. A reason for this could be that Mississippi, unlike many other states, does not allow for early voting unless it is in the form of an absentee ballot. Because of this, Obama supporters in Mississippi have only one day to get out and vote. Historically, early voting has been a good thing for democrats, and with early voting not being an option available to Mississippians the support on election day of democrats casting their vote may prove to be very weak.