台灣忙著準備過年,這邊忙著準備Super Tuesday。 

According to wikipedia, Super Tuesday "commonly refers to the Tuesday in early February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to national conventions at which each party's presidential candidates are officially nominated. More delegates can be won on Super Tuesday than on any other single day of the primary calendar, and accordingly, candidates seeking the presidency traditionally must do well on this day to secure their party's nomination."

The Super Tuesday of the 2008 presidential election was February 5. Twenty-four states held primaries or caucuses: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia. For the Democrats, 1,681 delegates were at stake in 16 primaries and seven caucuses. The Republicans had 1,020 delegates at stake in 15 primaries and six caucuses.

CNN.com has the detailed results on Super Tuesday: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/dates/#20080205.


U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz., won party bids in Oklahoma's primary.

Clinton, 60, had the support of many veteran Democratic activists in Oklahoma and raised more money than any other candidate -- from either party -- in the state. Former Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Turpen, a longtime supporter and fundraiser for Clinton, called Oklahoma "Hillaryland" on Tuesday. "I think the people of Oklahoma truly believe she really is ready -- day one -- to be commander in chief," Turpen said Tuesday night. "I couldn't be more pleased she ran this strong in a state like Oklahoma. If Hillary can win in Oklahoma, she can win anywhere."

McCain, 71, got a bona fide social and fiscal conservative in Oklahoma to endorse him last month -- Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Muskogee. He also had the support of former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, who vouched for McCain's conservative positions on social issues. Tuesday night at Republican watch parties in Oklahoma City, state party leaders urged unity regardless of who wins the party's presidential nomination. "At the end of the day, whoever is the Republican nominee is going to be so much better than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama," said state Sen. Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City.


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- CNN Election Center 2008: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/
- Wikipedia on Super Tuesday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Tuesday






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