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After Clinton’s Ohio and Texas victories, each of Mississippi’s 40 Democratic delegates became precious to both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama . Seven of them are unpledged superdelegates, free to support the candidate of their choosing. The other 33 will be allocated proportionally to the candidates based on their primary results, so both Obama and Clinton will pick up a portion of Mississippi delegates.

Political analysts believe that Obama will win in Mississippi, and recent polls support that theory.

Obama has drawn strong support from African-American voters and, according to American Research Group, 55 percent of Mississippi’s likely Democratic voters are black. In Ohio’s March 4 primary, 18 percent of Democratic voters identified themselves as African American, and 87 percent of them supported Obama over Clinton, according to exit polls.

Clinton has been campaigning in the state, but she has also dispatched her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to make the Mississippi campaign rounds. The former president had strong ties to the black community and was commonly referred to as the nation’s “first black president.” But he angered some black voters earlier this year when he likened Obama’s South Carolina primary victory to Jesse Jackson’s primary successes in the state. Some believed Clinton was attempting to dismiss Obama’s win due solely to his race.

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