American Super Tuesday - the Race to the White House

John McCain earned himself a super Wednesday, a day to savor coast-to-coast primary victories that ratified him as the Republican front-runner, while Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama dug in after a night of divided spoils in a Democratic presidential contest that could stretch to the spring, reports Associated Press.

Clinton secured the votes of more delegates while, Obama won more states.

Obama won 13 Super Tuesday states; Clinton, eight plus American Samoa. Clinton scored the advantage in delegates, bring her total to 845 to Obama’s 765, by the latest accounting. The road ahead was long for the Democrats: It takes 2,025 delegates to claim their nomination.

The candidate with the most delegates gets the party nomination; John McCain is more or less the Republican front-runner now, however, there is more battle ahead for the Clinton and Obama camps.

According to Wikipedia, Super Tuesday commonly refers to the Tuesday in early February or March of a presidential election year when the greatest number of states hold primary elections to select delegates to national conventions at which each party’s presidential candidates are officially nominated.

The process of selecting a party nominee is indeed a landmark for American democracy regardless of who gets the party nod: No woman or person of color has ever made it to the front-line as we have seen this time around. Hillary Clinton is a two-time Senator and First-lady, and Obama, a junior Senator, is of African descent; his father is from Kenya.