Suspense on Super Tuesday
The media provided the world with hard political answers on Tuesday and the days that followed. I did not witness any sensationalism or anything misleading, because numbers don’t lie. The avenue of inquiry taken by those around me consisted of CNN news on the tv and CNN.com’s up to the minute campaign coverage.
The neck and neck race between Obama and Clinton was one of the highlights of the event coupled along with the announcement that Mitt Romney would drop out as a result of the poles. Obama has ridden the wave of momentum and gained four more states and the U.S. Virgin Islands and only trails Clinton by approximately 30 delegates. He actually lead Clinton in pledged delegates from the states and continues to be a front runner for the democratic party, but Clinton is still maintaining the lead for the democratic party.
Clinton won the big delegate rich states like her home state of New York plus California, while Obama won a majority of states although they were much smaller. Huckabee who won a few states on super Tuesday continues his campaign even though he is far behind McCain. Wednesday saw only 15,000 popular votes separating Clinton from Obama out of 15,000,000 and McCain ran away with the Republican party lead by nearly a 2:1 margin. All of this information was garnered by my friends and myself through the dual mediums of CNN (the internet and broadcast tv.)
Filed under: Spring 2008, Super Primary Tuesday