Internet Coverage of Super Tuesday
The major news companies such as CNN and NBC offered complete coverage of Super Tuesday on their websites and basically told the same stories.
Although there were not any absolute nominations awarded as a result of Super Tuesday, there were some significant effects drawn from the day.
The most dramatic results occurred for the Republican Party. John McCain, who was not seen as a serious nominee just last summer, solidified his role as a leading republican candidate. McCain’s central message is that he will unite his party in response to the fact that he is said to have alienated some of the more conservative republicans. To the surprise of most political experts, Mitt Romney has decided to suspend his campaign most likely as a result of McCain’s success on Tuesday. Mike Huckabee is still seen as a strong nominee due in large part because of his evangelical background and how this appeals to many Midwest and Southern states.
For the Democratic Party, the results proved that there is a very close race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Heading into these elections Clinton appeared to be the more popular nominee but Obama clearly showed that this is still a heated contest. Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean was quoted as saying, “I think it is good that we go deep into the nominating process.”
Many of these news websites offered different options for information regarding the Super Tuesday results. All the sites had several different texts to be picked from with headlines to guide potential readers. Some had pie charts and graphs to show results in a way that is quick for the reader to know what happened. There were even sites such as NBC’s msnbc.com that had video segments available from their television broadcasts.
Filed under: Spring 2008, Super Primary Tuesday