Super Tuesday State Profile: Massachusetts

US Politics / Editor / 02 February 2008 /

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Democratic Primary Analysis:
Hillary Clinton looks strong throughout the North Eastern states as she heads into Massachusetts with a comanding lead in the polls and on the Betfair market. Barack Obama will be looking here in the hope that a strong performance in the lead up to the day itself will bolster support at the polls and that he can pick up more delegates than expected, if not actually win the state outright.

Republican Primary Analysis:
Mitt Romney is hot favourite to win here, he is leading in double digits in the polls and is the ex Governor of the State, so in all likliness this will be a Romney landslide. The delegates are divided proportionally statewide, however, so the extent of victory will be important in the grand scheme of things. John McCain is currently polling second while the rest of the field are trailing with single figure support.

Important information

- Timezone: GMT -5

- Polls open: 11AM GMT

- Polls close: 12AM GMT

- Abbreviation: MA

- Delegates at stake: 121

Demographics

- White: 49.5%

- Hispanic: 14.4%

- Black: 25.3%

- Other: 10.8%

Political history

- Senators: Ted Kennedy and John Kerry (both Democrats)

- Governor: Deval Patrick (Democrat)

- 2004 voted for: Kerry

- Electoral College votes: 12

Other stats

- Population: 6.4 million

- State nickname: Bay State

- State capital: Boston

- Most famous offspring: John Adams, George Bush Snr, E. E. Cummings, Benjamin Franklin, JFK, Helen Hunt

- Strange fact: the first subway system in American was built in Boston in 1897

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