by Kenneth Vronek

Created on: February 06, 2008   Last Updated: July 02, 2008

Yesterday was what is referred to as Super Tuesday in the United States. 21 states held elections to help determine the nominees for the presidential election for both the republicans and democrats. John McCain was the big winner on the republican side winning delegate rich states including New York, California and New Jersey. He now has 516 of the 1,191 delegates needed to win the republican nomination according to msnbc.com. Polls had showed that Romney had overtaken McCain in California but when it was all said and done, it was McCain that won the biggest prize which happened to be winner take all. Romney says he's not dropping out but his chances are very slim right now. If he had won California and won those 170 delegates then it would be a much different story right now but that loss was huge and I think it's sealed his fate.

Mike Huckabee was the surprise of Super Tuesday. It started when he won West Virginia in what Mitt Romney called a backroom deal between Huckabee and John McCain. Regardless of how it happened it was Huckabee that won the 18 delegates from the Mountaineer state. But that wasn't the only surprise win for Huckabee. He won Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama in addition to his home state of Arkansas and nearly won Missouri. That success in the south all but guarantees that he'll be John McCain's running mate in the general election. John McCain may have been the big winner on the republican side last night but Mike Huckabee was a winner as well.

Things are a lot closer on the democratic side. Hillary Clinton won the big states, California, New York and New Jersey, as well as a few others, but it was Barack Obama that won the most states. Barack won Georgia, Connecticut, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Utah, Delaware, Alabama, North Dakota, Kansas, Idaho, Alaska and his home state of Illinois. Hillary still has the edge in delegates, 582 to 485 for Obama, according to msnbc.com, but Obama isn't out of it by any means.

I think the only real surprise on the democratic side was that Hillary Clinton won Massachusetts and won big. I think a lot of people expected Barack Obama to get a boost from the support he got from the Kennedy's but that didn't seem to help him at all in their home state as he lost to Hillary by 15 percentage points.

Looking ahead, I think that you'll see the republicans unite around John McCain and start focusing on the general election as soon as possible while the democrats continue to fight it out. The republicans

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