So what exactly is Super Tuesday? Well, basically, it’s a primary election to select delegates/ nominees to get to a national convention to select the final party’s presidential cnadinate for the presidential election. The 2012 Super Tuesday, held on March 6 2012, will be extremely important for Republican to select their potential presidential delegate against the incumbent Democrat President Barak Obama. The States that hold the primaries on Super Tuesday varied from year to year. The States that hold the primaries in 2012 are Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and Alaska, a total of 10 states participating. It will hold a total of 419 delegates (18.3% of the total number of delegates). To win the final Republican National Convention, the candidate must accumulate 1,144 delegate votes to win. The result of the Super Tuesday is as follow. Mitt Romney came out first in the election with 385 secured delegates, with a popular vote of 40.5 and wining 6 states. The second came with Rick Santorum, wining 130 secured delegates, a 24.9% popular vote and wining 3 states. Newt Gingrich came out third, with a 110 secured delegates, 23.2% of the popular votes and wining Georgia State, his home state. Ron Paul came out last with 23 secured delegates, 11.4% of popular votes and wining 0 states. The result doesn’t conclude that Mitt Romney will eventually come out to be the 2012 presidential election candidate for the Republican. However, he has a high chance to become one. This primary election is important in helping the Republican to assess who has the most potential to become the next US president.
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