Illinois US Senator Barack Obama won the Tuesday 11 March Mississippi Primary over Hillary Clinton by approximately a 3-2 margin. The win follows up his recent victory last Saturday in the Wyoming caucuses by a similar margin over Clinton. With the completion of this primary, the campaign goes into a relative period of inactivity as the flurry of primaries and caucuses that has occured over the last two plus months comes to a temporary halt for six weeks until the 22 April Pennsylvania Primary. Look for an ever so slight decline in the intensity of media coverage of the campaign and the candidates for the next few weeks or so, but also expect the mudslinging and dirty campaigning by the Clinton camp to increase noticeably as she struggles to overcome the Obama advantage in the last few weeks of the remaining campaign season starting in Pennsylvania and continuing into May in such states as Indiana, Kentucky, Oregon, West Virginia, and North Carolina. The 33 delegates at stake in the Magnolia State will be apportioned based on the results so look for Obama to get about 20 t0 22 of those delegates and Clinton 11 to 13. This would give Obama an estimated total of about 1610 delegates, about 415 short of what is needed to clinch the nomination. Clinton has about 1475 delegates, and trails Obama by around 125 to 135 delegates according to estimates. Lets all enjoy the upcoming respite from the besiegement of this seemingly eternal campaign in the coming months. *****
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