As America wakes up to this day that Political Pundits have christened Super Duper Tuesday, one gets the feeling that this day could be significant or maybe not.
Having spent the better part of the last year campaigning from the beaches of Florida to the vineyards of California, the Republicans and Democrats candidates are likely to have a clearer sense of who will win the party nomination for the general elections later in the year.
The buzz around these elections is the most frenzied I can remember since I began paying attention to these matters at the time of the Dukakis nominantion in 1988.
Two comments from Arianna Huffington form the book ends in the shelf of opinion and commentaries that have flooded the media since the primary season began in Iowa till date.
On the night of Barack Obama's suprising victory on that January night, she opened her article by saying
Even if your candidate didn't win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do...
Because tonight voters decided that they didn't want to look back. They wanted to look into the future --- as if a country exhausted by the last seven years wanted to recapture its youth.
Yesterday, she alluded to what may yet be an underlying motive for voting one way or another for those who go out to the caucuses and ballots later today.
Having spent the better part of the last year campaigning from the beaches of Florida to the vineyards of California, the Republicans and Democrats candidates are likely to have a clearer sense of who will win the party nomination for the general elections later in the year.
The buzz around these elections is the most frenzied I can remember since I began paying attention to these matters at the time of the Dukakis nominantion in 1988.
Two comments from Arianna Huffington form the book ends in the shelf of opinion and commentaries that have flooded the media since the primary season began in Iowa till date.
On the night of Barack Obama's suprising victory on that January night, she opened her article by saying
Even if your candidate didn't win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do...
Because tonight voters decided that they didn't want to look back. They wanted to look into the future --- as if a country exhausted by the last seven years wanted to recapture its youth.
Yesterday, she alluded to what may yet be an underlying motive for voting one way or another for those who go out to the caucuses and ballots later today.
"The 2008 Race for President", she said, was "the Search for our Better Selves."
You may agree or disagree with Ms Huffington's opinion, but what you can't discount is the extent to which the world beyond America is watching these events closely in the hope that maybe those same feelings can be engendered in our politics. As those of us non-Americans can't vote to decide who wins this race, the best we can hope for is that the same buzz can be generated in our nations and communities. But again, its a case of maybe or maybe not. Whatever happens, we can always look back to this Tuesday morning in historic terms.
Image - Courtesy of HuffPo
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