Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/clinton-obama-plot-strategies-for-final-primary-contests Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Sen. Barack Obama scored a victory in the Mississippi primary Tuesday, nudging his delegate advantage over rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. With nearly a dozen primary contests remaining, political analysts weigh how the battle for delegates may be waged in Pennsylvania and beyond. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Next, the rough road ahead for the Democrats. Judy Woodruff has the story. JUDY WOODRUFF: Barack Obama was back home in Chicago today, receiving endorsements from retired military officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force.SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), Illinois: It is a great privilege to be joined by some of the distinguished generals and admirals that are supporting my campaign. JUDY WOODRUFF: The new support came on the heels of yet another southern state victory, yesterday's runaway win in Mississippi. Obama captured 61 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 37 percent.But exit polls showed Magnolia State Democratic primary voters, almost 30 percent of whom were either independent or Republican, were deeply divided along racial lines: 91 percent of blacks supported Obama, while 70 percent of whites backed Clinton.Those divisions coincided with the dust-up over comments made by former Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 nominee for vice president and a Hillary Clinton supporter.During an interview with a California newspaper last week, Ferraro said, quote, "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is, and the country is caught up in the concept."Clinton was asked about Ferraro's remarks yesterday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), New York: Well, I don't agree with that. And I think it's important that, you know, we try to stay focused on the issues that matter to the American people. JUDY WOODRUFF: Obama called Ferraro's comments "patently absurd" and hadn't backed off when asked about them today. SEN. BARACK OBAMA: What I'm more concerned about is for the Democratic Party as a whole, but also the country as a whole, not to get drawn up into this slicing and dicing of the electorate into black, white, male, female. You know, that's the pressure that we're always under. JUDY WOODRUFF: In an appearance on ABC's "Good Morning America," however, Ferraro blamed Obama's campaign for inciting the dust-up. GERALDINE FERRARO, Former Vice Presidential Nominee: My comments have been taken so out of context and been spun by the Obama campaign as racist that, you know, it's doing precisely what they don't want done. It's going to the Democratic Party and dividing us even more. JUDY WOODRUFF: But late today, Ferraro stepped down from her position on the Clinton campaign's finance committee.Meanwhile, Obama and Clinton's elected convention delegate totals will be largely frozen for the next six weeks until Pennsylvania holds its primary April 22nd.