After taking Mississippi in Democratic primary on Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama is now just 429 delegates short of the required 2025 delegates to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for the November 4 presidential election.

Obama beat Senator Hillary Clinton by 61 to 37 percent, a margin of 24 percent, continuing the trend of wide margin victories. Mississippi accounted for 33 delegates of which Obama won 19 and Clinton 14, nullifying Clinton’s delegate net gain from her Texas and Ohio wins. Obama continues lead, now with a total 1,598 delegates 111 more than Clinton’s 1,487.

The front running democratic candidate’s win with 90 percent of Mississippi’s Black votes and 27 percent of its white, has become the subject of many of political analysts, some of whom see it as a potential danger sign – that he was being cast as the candidate for Blacks.

However, as Cindy Rhoden, a native of Jackson, Mississippi, told the National Weekly, “These commentators seem to forget the history of Mississippi. My state was among the most racially divided states in the south. They hung Black people from trees there just for looking at or talking back to white people. So it is most natural for Blacks in the state to support such an outstanding Black candidate as Obama, and for whites, many of whom are direct descendants of raving racists, not to vote for him.”

Rhoden, a medical student currently enjoying spring break in Fort Lauderdale added that, “At the same time, I notice this double standard. Why aren’t the commentators referring to Clinton as the Hispanic’s candidate? After all she won huge Hispanic votes in states like California, New York and Texas.”

Although Obama has been getting significant percentage of the Black votes in most states in which Democratic primaries and caucuses have been held, he has won significant percentage of the white vote in states like Iowa, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.

Following Mississippi, there is now a six-week window leading to the Pennsylvania primary on April 22. The latest polls show Clinton leading by an average of 15 percent over Obama in that state, but there is a long time for each candidate to campaign. Some pundits foresee a much more muddy race, with candidates getting more aggressive and perhaps more negative that that much time on their hands.

Will it be Flori-Duh again?

In the meantime, a big question sign continues to hang over both Florida and Michigan. What do we do about these delegates? Will both states be required to have do-over primaries or caucuses, since according to party rules the delegates won’t be seated?

In Florida, there is a division among Democratic leaders. On the one hand, some are rushing to present a plan to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by Thursday, proposing that Florida Democrats vote again, but by mail. On the other, the state’s nine Democratic representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives met on Tuesday and concluded that while they were prepared to work with the DNC to find a solution to the delegates problem, they do not support the mail-in election or any other kind of do-over election.

Obama’s campaign has also been reported to have concerns about a mail-in ballots, but stated that it reserved judgment until the mail-in plan was presented.