The Hattiesburg American Editorial, 9/18/8
With some 1.78 million registered voters in Mississippi, all eyes in both the Democratic and Republican parties will be on voter turnout in the Nov. 4 general election.
The conventional wisdom has long been that 2008 will see a voter turnout of historic proportions in Mississippi because of the contenders on this year’s ballot in the presidential campaign. Primary elections in the state earlier this year seem to have bolstered that thinking.
A record 434,152 voters cast ballots in Mississippi’s 2008 Democratic presidential primary. Election returns from the March 11 Democratic presidential primary shows that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois won 20 delegates from the state which Democratic challenger Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York won 13.
