Super Tuesday

One of the benefits of being connected to the Internet politics is much easier to research while helping voters stay informed. Thus, with the Internet it makes it easier to explain while easily providing examples and links to support researched topics on politics such as the history behind “Super Tuesday”.

Super Tuesday received its name back in 1988 when southern states joined together to have their primaries or caucuses on the same day. The intention was to help parties save money while trying to expedite the decision process and preventing delays. This is beneficial for the parties and candidates to a point. However, a part of the focus of primaries and caucuses is the help the voter to get to know potential candidates before the national conventions and ultimately the presidential race.

The movement of a majority of the primaries to super Tuesday may save money for Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC). Unfortunately, the voters are losing out by not receiving face time from candidates because of the limited time between the Iowa Caucus and Super Tuesday. This forces candidates to skip states, rush through states and cities while focusing on specific groups such as minorities or unions.

The recent events has each parties political machine speeding along and “Super Tuesday” (February 5th) could potentially be renamed surprise Tuesday due to previous wins by Senator Clinton, former Governor Mitt Romney, Senator John McCain, and the Iowa Caucus win by Mike Huckabee. The current race is so hectic that some websites are calling it Tsunami Tuesday. However, with "Internet politics" and blogs Super Tuesday could become even more hectic and make history if Rudy Giuliani wins the Florida primary. In that event, this would leave the republicans in their financial backers in a quandary about who they should support.

Although the GOP is having their own identity crisis they are not alone. The race between Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton is proving to be as entertaining as any other Super Tuesday since former President Clinton had his trial and tribulations to eventually win. It is even more interesting with the popularity of the Internet politics is easily referenced by an abundant amount of blogs and RSS Feeds.

Super Tuesday being February 5th:

24 states will be conducting their primary or caucus. 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, West Virginia. ** Democrat caucuses only***

Feb. 1: Maine

Feb. 9: Kansas, Louisiana, Washington
Feb. 12: District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Feb. 19: Wisconsin
March 4: Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont
March 11: Mississippi
May 6: Indiana, North Carolina
May 13: Nebraska
May 17: Hawaii
May 20: Kentucky, Oregon
May 27: Idaho
June 3: South Dakota

To view dates along with the specific number of delegates please visit Wikipedia