Downsizing Super Tuesday

How did yesterday’s Super Tuesday compare with those in the recent past? According to the Wall Street Journal's Jeffry Bartash, this year’s election event was a less-than-super version of what it used to be. See his short piece for some historical perspective on what we’ve come to know as Super Tuesday. Here’s a snippet:

The downsizing of Super Tuesday is a direct result of party efforts to restore order to a process that had grown chaotic. States have been constantly moving up their primaries to gain more influence in the choice of the next presidential candidate, a trend that began in the 1980s and accelerated over the past two decades ...