Would Mississippi have gone to Obama?

[HAnnA MArin County]

It wouldn't have gone to Obama. He did make it closer than 2004 due to the high turnout of African Americans, but unfortunately, racial polarization exists in the South where I think exit polls showed that whites went for McCain like 9-to-1 and blacks went almost nearly entirely for Obama. In order to have won or made Mississippi a little closer, I think Obama would have had to have been more moderate or even conservative. The Republicans did a good job of painting him as this big-city liberal elitist who "pals around with terrorists" and as a closet Muslim, which, in the poorest and most uneducated state in the nation, I guess those kinds of fear smears play well. Even Bill Clinton of neighboring Arkansas couldn't carry Mississippi, and he was much more moderate (and whiter), so until the rednecks in Mississippi start voting for the party of killing babies and promoting the homosexual agenda, the Republicans will always win the Magnolia State.

Cue the banjos.

[HAnnA MArin County]

I recall Obama himself, delusional idiot that he is, claiming at some point that "if blacks just voted their numbers, we'd turn states like Mississippi blue" or something like that.

Which I think is true.  If blacks voted in the same numbers as whites, percentage wise, I'm pretty sure Obama would have carried Mississippi.  I could be wrong, though.

I somewhat agree but still, wouldn't Obama have to get a larger share of the white vote, and seeing as how it's Mississippi, I don't see that happening for him or for any Democrat for that matter. Mississippi's African American population would have to increase and nearly mimic the total number of whites. The state as a whole isn't very diverse; it's mostly just white and black (a very insignificant amount of Hispanics, Asians, Natives and other ethnic minorities).

However, if African American turnout was higher than the white turnout, then the state could possibly turn blue, but like I said, I just don't see that happening anytime soon.