Super Tuesday
Feb. 5th, 2008 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blueeowynToday is 'Super Tuesday' a day when 24 states have primary elections. If yours is one of the states with a primary today, VOTE (preferably after thinking about what the candidates stand for). By the end of today 1380 of 2368 delegates to the GOP (I think the Dem will be slightly lower because of the harsher penalties) will be chosen (58%). I'm sure that all the voters outside of the Super Tuesday and caucus states feel as special as I do in choosing my candidate. In both races people have dropped out (and will probably drop out after today) that I may have wanted to vote for and can't. I am firmly of the opinion that A) all primaries should be the same day B) that all the polls should open and close on the schedule (Greenwich Mean Time) so that the people on the west coast (and farther) can have a say in who gets elected. Granted, it may be rough in Alaska and Hawaii but even if it were only the continental US that would be good. At the very least NO district should formally announce their results until all polls in that race have been closed.
We have 50 states (plus DC), by the time the polls close tonight, 21 will have held their primaries.
2/5 - 17 (AL, AZ, AS, CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, MA, MO, NJ, NM, NY, OK, TN, UT, WA)
Earlier
1/8 - 1 (NH)
1/19,26 - 1 (SC -one for D, one for R)
1/29 - 1 (FL)
1/15 - 1 (MI)
Caucus- 10 - (AK, CO, HI, IO, KS, ME, MN, NV, ND, WY) - they have their state general primaries all over the map
Later
2/9 - 1 (LA,
2/12 - 3 (MD, DC, VA)
3/29 - 1 (WI)
3/4 - 3 (RI, VT, TX)
3/11 - 1 (MS)
3/14 - 1 (OH)
4/22 - 1 (PA)
5/6 - 2 (IN, NC)
5/13 - 2 (NE, WV)
5/20 - 2 (KY, OR)
5/27 - 1 (ID)
6/3 - 2 (MT, SD)
There is something to be said for the June timeframe (shorter time between the elections) but I personally like the mid-March - mid-April timeframe. (Fewer chances of people going on vacation and missing the election OR having the election mess up someone's primary tourist time). And quite frankly I don't care if the election falls during [insert religious celebration of your choice]. Since elections tend to be on Tuesdays we will avoid the sabbath and I could see an argument for avoiding any holidays that are observed by staying home and doing nothing. However, Lent (for example) doesn't count in that.
We have 50 states (plus DC), by the time the polls close tonight, 21 will have held their primaries.
2/5 - 17 (AL, AZ, AS, CA, CT, DE, GA, IL, MA, MO, NJ, NM, NY, OK, TN, UT, WA)
Earlier
1/8 - 1 (NH)
1/19,26 - 1 (SC -one for D, one for R)
1/29 - 1 (FL)
1/15 - 1 (MI)
Caucus- 10 - (AK, CO, HI, IO, KS, ME, MN, NV, ND, WY) - they have their state general primaries all over the map
Later
2/9 - 1 (LA,
2/12 - 3 (MD, DC, VA)
3/29 - 1 (WI)
3/4 - 3 (RI, VT, TX)
3/11 - 1 (MS)
3/14 - 1 (OH)
4/22 - 1 (PA)
5/6 - 2 (IN, NC)
5/13 - 2 (NE, WV)
5/20 - 2 (KY, OR)
5/27 - 1 (ID)
6/3 - 2 (MT, SD)
There is something to be said for the June timeframe (shorter time between the elections) but I personally like the mid-March - mid-April timeframe. (Fewer chances of people going on vacation and missing the election OR having the election mess up someone's primary tourist time). And quite frankly I don't care if the election falls during [insert religious celebration of your choice]. Since elections tend to be on Tuesdays we will avoid the sabbath and I could see an argument for avoiding any holidays that are observed by staying home and doing nothing. However, Lent (for example) doesn't count in that.