MS-PPP: All Republicans ahead of Obama

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Q12 Do you want Haley Barbour to run for President next year?

Yes.................................................................. 33%
No................................................................... 48%
Not sure .......................................................... 19%

This might be a reason why Barbour does worse than Huckabee. They want him to serve as Governor of their state until the term ends (or even longer).

He only has 9 more months in office.  That isn't unusual though.  Daniels is popular in Indiana but Hoosiers polled that they don't want him to run for prez.

PPP reports most of the opposition to his candidacy comes from Dems, though includes about half of indies and a third of Republicans too.

Still surprisingly poor numbers for a reasonably popular (52-39 approve/disapprove in the poll) home state governor. Maybe a good number of people supporting his work as governor just don't see him as presidential timber.

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Yikes:

The South isn't racist at all.

Interracial marriage probably didn't do well among people of any race in MS. As I recall, the Alabama referendum repealing the defunct anti-miscegenation statute back in 2002 barely passed in the Black Belt counties (except Montgomery) while barely passing statewide.

In the 2000 referendum legalizing interracial marriage, the Black Belt of Alabama voted heavily in favour.

That, and there is a very, very good master's thesis one can find on-line somewhere that does detailed statistical analysis of that vote. The conclusion: Said referendum was overwhelmingly supported by blacks, and split the white vote 50/50.