Word: superealism
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...other hand, there's something undeniably heady, if not entirely logical, about a supercharged Super Week of Super Bowl and Super Tuesday--something to remind an increasingly gloomy country that for Americans, nothing succeeds like excess. Surely there's a better way to pick a President. But would any other way be quite so rumbustiously ours...
...before Super Tuesday, psychology professor Steven Pinker betrayed more than a little skepticism toward the presidential primary system. But we weren’t talking about the election. We were talking about bestseller lists. “Bestseller lists are like the Top 40 in music or presidential campaigns,” Pinker said. “Chance fluctuations tend to be amplified.” Pinker united with fellow literary luminaries Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein, and Maureen McLane to decry bestseller lists at an event called “The Best Recommended: A National Book Critics Circle Project...
...Nearly two dozen states, tired of standing on the sidelines as future Presidents lavished attention on places like Ottumwa, Iowa, and Nashua, N.H., had muscled their way to an early spot on the calendar. Proportional delegate allotment - instead of winner-take-all results - would ensure that every vote mattered. Super Tuesday would be the closest thing we have ever seen to a national primary: a single day on which the candidates had to prove themselves to every slice of the American electorate in states that are home to nearly half the population of the country. It was supposed to settle...
...grand plan for Super Tuesday, it turns out, depended on one candidate having superior strength, assets and popularity. Instead, the two superstar candidates and their dueling arsenals canceled each other out. Obama's greatest strength was among upscale voters, African Americans, younger people, liberals and those with college educations. He ran even with Clinton among men. Clinton drew strong support from women, older voters, Hispanics, lower-income people and those with less education. And even those gaps were shrinking, as Clinton's edge among women narrowed in some states and Obama's inroads with white voters increased...
...states that didn't join the stampede to move their primaries forward. Far from being an afterthought as just about everyone had expected, they have the power to crown the winner. And if they don't? The decision may well fall to some 800 party insiders known as super-delegates. Yes, that's right: the perverse result of all this additional democracy, in which more people than ever before will have had a voice, could be that Democrats have to turn to old-style backroom politics to select a nominee...