After Super Tuesday

Wow! Super Tuesday is over. In my last blog, I said I would post the results as soon as the smoke cleared. Well, it's still a little cloudy over here but I can provide at least a partial update. Remember, on the Democratic side, I was looking for Caterham student predictions on the number of states Clintion and Obama would win as well as the delegate split between the two of them.

The delegate situation will take another day or two to sort out. For that matter, even the state count can't be nailed down completely yet. In New Mexico, with over 130,000 votes cast, Clinton leads Obama by less than 200! So, although New Mexico can't be called, we know Clinton won 8 states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, and Tennessee, plus, we can't forget, American Samoa). Obama won 13 (Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, and Utah). The final state total, depending on which way New Mexico goes, will be either 14-9 or 13-10 in favor of Obama. So, we have a winner on the state count: Andrew C. who had Obama with 12 and Clinton with 11. No other student had Obama with more than 10.

I'll try to make some sense of the delegate situation in the next posting, as well as look at the apparent developing clarity on the Republican side.

Discussion Questions:

1. Who do you think will win the Democratic caucuses and primaries (7 in all) in the upcoming week? The 7 are: Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington (on Saturday), Maine (Sunday), and the so-called "Potomac Primaries" next Tuesday (Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia).

2. What trends, if any, do you see developing for both the Democratic and Republican nominations?

Remember to send me your comments and questions. I'll try to post many of them.