McClatchy: Super Tuesday might be super confusing

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Super Tuesday might be super confusing
By Dave Helling | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Monday, January 21, 2008


KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Feb. 5 will be the biggest presidential primary day in American history.

More than 70 million registered voters in 24 states will choose more than 2,700 Democratic and Republican convention delegates on Super Tuesday, almost 10 times more than in all the primaries and caucuses so far. Before they do, they'll be bombarded by TV ads, phone banks, campaign appearances and surrogates for at least eight major candidates, and by nonstop polling, punditry and predictions.

"Super" seems inadequate, so it's been dubbed Tsunami Tuesday. So surely, on back-to-normal Wednesday, we'll know who the two major presidential nominees are?

Maybe.

"No one has ever seen anything like this," said Jack Oliver, a top adviser to the Bush-Cheney campaigns in 2000 and 2004. "I just don't know that we'll know" the ultimate winners the next day.

"It's way, way too early (to know)," said Bill Lacy, former Sen. Fred Thompson's campaign manager and a veteran of former Kansas Republican Sen. Bob Dole's campaigns. He said it was "plausible" that candidates in one or both parties could fight for the nomination for months, well into the summer.

"We're in uncharted territory," said Burdett Loomis, a University of Kansas political science professor.

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[MH1]

1. They couldn't even figure out the delegate count for one state...

Super Tuesday is definitely going to be a challenge.

[Cha]

2. Count on it...it will make

Nevada look like abc.