Super Tuesday

February 6th, 2008 at 1:42 am

When the first Super Tuesday occurred back in 1988, it was supposed to be a regional primary that would unite the South and give it more influence over the Democratic nomination. Now, twenty years later, the primaries are more evenly distributed and more states have taken part than ever before. The spin doctors are working their magic on TV and the candidates are declaring victory in states across the country.

Both there is one thing that unites all five candidates who won a primary or caucus tonight: Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Barack Obama,  and Mitt Romney ALL went “On the Record” with ONE last year. Students in the ONE Campus Challenge placed over 1600 calls to these (and other) candidates asking them to do so and they did.

Now cynics might say these candidates went “On the Record”  and have been sucessful so far for the same reason: they have run strong, well organized campaigns. But maybe its something deeper, that the candidates who want to do the right thing tend to go “On the Record” and do well in elections. Either way, we can safely say no matter who wins the White House at this point, the next President will have a plan to fight poverty.

Check out the election results.

In other news President Bush released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2009. ONE’s policy director wrote up a summary available here.