Politics | Barack Obama Obama Wins Miss. Primary Hopeful also beats Clinton in Texas caucuses, gaining most state delegates By Neal Colgrass Posted Mar 11, 2008 8:25 PM CDT Copied Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., visits with media aboard her campaign plane at the Laurel Mississippi Airport in Laurel, Miss., Friday, March 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Associated Press) Seeking to regain momentum, Barack Obama triumphed in a racially divided Mississippi primary today by winning about 90% of black votes and a third of white voters, CNN projects. He also won last week's Texas caucuses, scoring more state delegates overall than primary-winner Hillary Clinton. Mississippi awards 33 delegates and Texas 193 in their respective state races. Obama has beaten Clinton in contests across the South—South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana—all states where black voters made a strong show in his favor. Mississippi exit polls showed that nearly half of voters were black, a fifth were independent, and one in 10 Republican. Mississippi is the last contest before Pennsylvania's whopping 188-delegate primary next month. Read These Next President Trump writes a snippy letter to Norway. It's a largely invisible nightmare for many families. He went to look for 4 missing friends. They were rescued, he was not. Meet the Oscar winner who says the award injured her career. Report an error