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Super
Tuesday
·
On February
6, 2008
Super
Tuesday
ended with
no clear
winner
(Hillary
Rodham
Clinton -
Barack Obama)
in
Democratic
Party for
presidential
nomination
and Arizona
Senator John
McCain in
lead to
claim
Republican
Party
nomination
for November
election
·
Senator
Hillary
Rodham
Clinton
notched
significant
victories,
while
Senator
Barack Obama
won in
smaller
states
·
In the
Democratic
field, Obama
won
Alabama,
Alaska,
Colorado,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Georgia,
Idaho,
Illinois,
Kansas,
Minnesota,
Missouri,
North Dakota
and Utah.
·
Clinton won
Arizona,
Arkansas,
California,
Massachusetts,
New Jersey,
New York,
Oklahoma and
Tennessee..
·
In the
Republican
contest,
McCain won
Arizona,
California,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Illinois,
Missouri,
New Jersey,
New York and
Oklahoma.
Romney was
leading in
Alaska, and
won
Colorado,
Massachusetts,
Minnesota,
Montana,
North Dakota
and Utah.
Former
Arkansas
Governor
Mike
Huckabee won
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Georgia,
Tennessee
and West
Virginia.
·
Twenty-four
states
participated
in the
so-called
Super
Tuesday
contest.
·
The
Democrats
were
contesting
in 22 states.
The party’s
candidate
requires
2,025
delegates to
win the
nomination.
Clinton had
783
delegates to
Obama’s 709
·
The
Republicans
need 1,191
delegates to
stitch up
the
nomination.
McCain had
559
delegates to
265 for
Romney and
169 for
Huckabee,
according to
the CNN
count.
·
The
presidential
races head
to key
primaries in
Virginia,
Maryland and
Washington,
DC, next
Tuesday.
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