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MUMBAI:
The road to the White House, as the Beatles might have said, is
long and winding -- and the 2008 contest is no exception. Campaigning
started earlier than ever, with candidates running at a breakneck
pace a year before any votes are cast. The road includes major stops
in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, a semi-national
primary on February 5, national party conventions in Denver, Colorado,
and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, a national Election Day in
November and a meeting of the Electoral College in December -- with
dozens of filing deadlines and thousands of fundraisers, chicken
dinners and campaign stops along the way. And it all leads to Inauguration
Day in January 2009, when the new president and vice president take
office on the steps of the Capitol in Washington.
Super
Tuesday results:
Twenty-four states held presidential primaries or caucuses on February
5: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia. For the Democrats,
1,681 delegates are at stake in 16 primaries and seven caucuses.
The Republicans have 1,020 delegates at stake in 15 primaries and
six caucuses.
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