SUPER TUESDAY

thanks to the miracle of time zones and international date lines, today (Weds) in Hong Kong is Super Tuesday in the States. This is the day when 10 states have their democratic party primaries to choose who they would like to lead the democratic party in the Novembers presidential election.

If you're an American, it's Super Tuesday because there are 10 results to analyse and bore everyone else about, more than on any other day.

If you're not, then it's Super Tuesday because by the end of it it is pretty much cut and dried who is going to win the democratic party nomination and you hope you won't have to hear any more tedious american (or indeed any other country) political analysis until the election finally rolls around in November.

In case anyone cares by the way, Senator John Kerry appears to have things pretty much wrapped up for the democrats.