by Chris Bodenner
Democrats are on the verge of winning a Senate seat in Mississippi, which hasn't elected a nonincumbent Dem senator since 1947 and which Bush won by 20% in 2004. The key is the state's 36% black population (the highest in the nation), which Obama is sure to fire up.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/07/black-uprising/213799/
