To secure the nomination, a candidate needed to … Mrs. Clinton won the hard-fought Democratic race in California, where both she and Mr. Obama had sought the state's wealth of 370 delegates to be chosen on Tuesday.

In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton virtually tied on Super Tuesday, although Obama had a slight victory and later became the Democratic nominee. But early on Wednesday David Plouffe, Barack Obama's campaign manager, sent reporters an e-mail with the subject line, "Obama wins Super Tuesday by winning more states and more delegates." Biden’s goal going into Super Tuesday was to stay close to Sanders in the delegate hunt and cement his status as the moderate alternative to the progressive senator. By both contests held and delegates awarded, the party’s biggest Super Tuesday was Feb. 5, 2008 – 1,688 delegates, more than 47% of the pledged total, were chosen in 24 primaries and caucuses, a haul so impressive that it was dubbed “Super-Duper Tuesday” and “Tsunami Tuesday.” (This post focuses on the Democrats because Republicans aren’t having a competitive nomination contest this year.) The goal of the process was to elect the majority of the 4,233 delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which was held from Sunday, August 25, through Wednesday, August 28, 2008, in Denver, Colorado.

RealClearPolitics Map RCP State-by-State Changes Map With No Toss Up States State Changes w/No Toss Ups Create Your Own Map 2004 RCP Electoral Map e. The presidential primaries actually consisted of both primary elections and caucuses, depending upon what the individual state chose.