Expectations High for Super Tuesday

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Published January 15, 2008 at 10:33 AM PST

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

Feb. 5 is Super Tuesday: the day when 22 states, including California, hold primaries or caucuses to determine their political party's nominee for president. Mail-in ballots are expected to weigh heav

Tom Fudge: Today is the Michigan primary, though nobody seems to care much about it. On the Democratic side, Edwards and Obama aren't even running. They pulled out because Michigan never got the party's approval to move up the date of its primary. But you have to care about Super Duper Tuesday, Feb. 5. Primary voters in California, New York, and a bunch of other big states will be going to the polls on that very day.

Gloria Penner spoke with the San Diego County Registrar of Voters . She joins us to talk about how the California primary will be run, and what you can expect.

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Guest

Gloria Penner , KPBS political correspondent and host of Editors Roundtable . She also writes a weekly political blog on our Web site.