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Ferraro resigns from clinton campaign

WASHINGTON

Geraldine Ferraro stepped down Wednesday from Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy over her comments that Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren't black. Ferraro wrote Clinton that she would no longer serve in her honorary position on her finance committee, adding that the Obama campaign "is attacking me to hurt you." On Wednesday night in Washington, Clinton said she repudiates Ferraro's remarks and "I regret deeply that it was said."

Clinton closes her Mississippi gap

Barack Obama picked up five more delegates than Hillary Rodham Clinton in Mississippi's Democratic primary Tuesday, but Clinton erased the gain Wednesday after final election results became available from Feb. 5 contests in New York and Colorado. In Mississippi, Obama won 19 delegates and Clinton 14, according to an analysis by the Associated Press. Clinton gained one delegate in New York and four in Colorado. She also picked up three superdelegates Wednesday, but she lost one with New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's resignation. Overall, Obama has 1,602 delegates, and Clinton has 1,497, according to the AP, which includes superdelegates. It takes 2,025 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.

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