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4 unusual facts about Super Tuesday


12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.

It takes place between Midnight and 1:00 a.m. in Los Angeles on Super Tuesday.

Grant Community High School

Grant Community High School held a referendum on Super Tuesday and passed after the machines in Northern Lake County broke.

Independence Party of Minnesota

On 2004's Super Tuesday, March 2, the party held caucuses around the state along with Minnesota's other three parties.

Super Tuesday, 2008

On June 3, 2007, the name Tsunami Tuesday—conveying the potential of the large number of simultaneous primaries to completely change the political landscape—was mentioned on Meet the Press during a round-table discussion with presidential campaign strategists James Carville, Bob Shrum, Mary Matalin, and Mike Murphy.


Texas Democratic primary and caucuses, 2008

The indecisive results of Super Tuesday, and the fact that Texas had the largest number of delegates among the states remaining on the Democratic primary calendar, resulted in the Texas primary receiving significant attention from both the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigns.


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