Obama Wins Mississippi

It's Obama Over Clinton In Mississippi

Barack Obama has moved one step closer to becoming the Democratic Presidential candidate by winning the Democratic primary in Mississippi.

Obama got 253,441 votes, or 61 percent of Mississippi's popular vote, compared with 154,852 votes, or 37 percent, for Clinton, according to the Associated Press.

William Galston, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Brookings Institution, says that Obama's strategy is paying off.

"That's been the essence of Obama's strategy: To pay at least as much attention to the caucus states and the smaller states as to the primary states and the larger states, " he said. "And it's paid off."

Barack is now 140 delegates ahead of Clinton in the battle for the nomination.