It’s Super Tuesday in the U.S.
Posted Mar 6, 2012 2:41 pm.
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It’s a big day stateside as the battle for the Republican Presidential nomination heats up.
People in 10 states were heading to the polls Tuesday — dubbed Super Tuesday — to select the candidate they support as the Republican party’s presidential nominee.
Political Scientist Duane Bratt at Mount Royal University says it’s a complicated electoral process.
“Some states, it’s winner take all,” Bratt tells 660News. “If you win the state, you get every delegate. Some states use a form of proportional representation. So it’s a very convuluted system where the rules change state to state.”
Regardless of the rules state by state, for the candidates the day could mean a lot of nail biting.
(It’s) “a day where 10 states all vote at the same time,” adds Bratt. “So a victory in Super Tuesday really could make or break the nomination race.”
Bratt adds that political junkies will be closely following the results in Oklahoma, Ohio and Virginia because the results in those states could determine if the race is over or not. But he adds the consensus is if Mitt Romney picks up more than half of the eligible delegates, he will have the unenviable task of running against the Democrats’ Barack Obama.
