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Super Tuesday, 2008
United States election date / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super Tuesday 2008,[1] Super Duper Tuesday,[2][3][4][5] Mega Tuesday,[6] Giga Tuesday,[7] Tsunami Tuesday,[8] and The Tuesday of Destiny[9] are names for February 5, 2008, the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections in the history of U.S. primaries were held.[10] Twenty-four states and American Samoa held either caucuses or primary elections for one or both parties on this date.[11] Furthermore, the week-long Democrats Abroad Global Primary began on this day.
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The large number of states that held elections on February 5 could have shortened the period between the first caucus in Iowa, on January 3, 2008, and the de facto selection of a party's nominee to just a few weeks.[2] Super Tuesday 2008 saw 52% of the Democratic and 41% of the Republican delegates awarded by early February 2008. By comparison, only about 1% of nominating convention delegates had been selected by that point in the 2000 election cycle.[12][13] It was held approximately one month before Super Tuesday II.