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10:44 PM, Mar 13, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

Fox News projects Rick Santorum the winner of today's Republican presidential primary in Mississippi. The call is made with 88 percent of the precincts reporting: Rick Santorum has 32.9 percent of the vote, Newt Gingrich 31.5 percent, Mitt Romney 30.2 percent, and Ron Paul 4.4 percent. Santorum is also projected to win today's other Southern primary in Alabama, while Newt Gingrich likewise came in second in that contest and Romney in third.

1:39 PM, Dec 21, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER

In response to Andrew Ferguson's cover story in this week's issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Mississippi governor Haley Barbour just issued this statement:

Morning Jay: Electoral Review Part 1, The South

6:30 AM, Nov 10, 2010 • By JAY COST

Today's post is the first entry in a four-part series analyzing the 2010 midterm election. My plan is to break it down by region, and I begin today with the South – or more specifically, the 11 states that made up the old Confederacy.

To start, let’s sketch out a broad overview of the Southern states, based on the available exit polling data. Exit polls were conducted in 5 of the 11 states we are evaluating, and here are some notable results.

Benen and Kornacki oversimplify.

12:30 PM, Sep 3, 2010 • By JAY COST

In a recent interview with Human Events, Mississippi governor Haley Barbour talks about the rise of Southern Republicans, arguing that it had to do with generational and economic transformations.

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