Obama – The Mississippi Link

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Republican Thad Cochran, in winning a seventh term in the U.S. Senate, fared well among those who disapproved of President Barack Obama’s performance and who felt the economy has been getting worse, according to preliminary results of exit polling conducted for The Associated Press and television networks. Cochran surmounted a bitter […]

By Monica Land WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his opening remarks Tuesday night at the “In Performance at the White House” Blues Event, President Barack Obama spoke to his guests on how the blues traveled from cotton fields of Mississippi to the South Side of Chicago. “In 1941, the folklorist Alan Lomax travelled throughout the Deep […]

The Mississippi Link

Early exit polls in Mississippi show economy, Obama on voters’ minds

President Obama acknowledges birth of the blues in Mississippi