Published: March 16, 2008 12:32 am            

Thanks GOP Hillary supporters

I would like to thank the Republicans who crossed over to vote for Hillary Clinton for proving the Democratic Party's case that we need to have party registration in Mississippi in order to keep Republicans from voting in our primaries. It looks like 70,000-75,000.

It likewise causes a dilemma for Mississippi's Democratic Super-delegates: Should they honor the respect of the voters in the case of Clinton, if half of them are crossover voters? Or should proportionately more of them vote for Obama to satisfy the wishes of the party faithful?

According to exit polling reported by CBS and ABC, 30 percent of white, Democratic voters went for Obama and 70 percent for Clinton, while 90 percent of black Democrats went for Obama.

Had John Arthur Eaves, Jamie Franks, Gary Anderson, Mike Sumrall or Rickey Cole received everyone of Clinton's crossover votes, each would have won their race and Democrats would have practically swept Mississippi in November.



Scott Tyner

Hattiesburg

        

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