Super Tuesday Won't Decide Nominations

[RoveRage]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080124/D8UC7RDO0.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Don't look to crown any presidential nominees on Super Tuesday. The race for delegates is so close in both parties that it is mathematically impossible for any candidate to lock up the nomination on Feb. 5, according to an Associated Press analysis of the states in play that day.

"A lot of people were predicting that this presidential election on both sides was going to be this massive sprint that ended on Feb. 5," said Jenny Backus, a Democratic consultant who is not affiliated with any candidate. Now it's looking as if the primaries after Super Tuesday - including such big, delegate-rich states as Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania - could grow in importance.

"Maybe some states were better off waiting," said Backus.

That doesn't mean Super Tuesday won't be super after all. Voters in more than 20 states will go to the polls on the biggest day of the primary campaign, and thousands of delegates will be at stake.

But it's possible Feb. 5 might not even produce clear front-runners.

Here's why:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads the race for delegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer. She has 236, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates, giving her a 100-delegate lead over Sen. Barack Obama.

[mcscajun]

1. That's fine by me.

The more states that actually have a part to play in this, the better, AFAIC.

:thumbsup:

[RoveRage]

3. I second that emotion!!!

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

2. I'd like to see it come down to Denver.

And it's close enough that it could actually happen. Edwards has already pledged to stay in all the way until then, and I'd guess that Clinton and Obama feel the same at this point.