Finally, something predictable
WASHINGTON - Senator Barack Obama has won the African-American vote in all the Democratic primaries and caucuses so far, and based on that performance is expected to win it again in the 22 states that hold Democratic ballots today.
The size of Obama's victory over Senator Hillary Clinton of New York among African-American voters could prove crucial to the eventual outcome of the race: If Obama wins by big margins in heavily black areas, he could gain a trove of delegates to the party's national convention that would be the equivalent of winning several small states.
That is because many predominantly black congressional districts, particularly in the South and Midwest, are delegate powerhouses that will send more than twice as many representatives to the Democratic convention in August as some mostly white districts in the same state. - Boston Globe, February 5, 2008
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