Super Bowl Sunday and Super Tuesday. I feel a little bad for Monday, and its middle child like status between the two important days of football fanatics and eager politicians hoping to take the lead in the polls.

In a lot of ways, the two ‘super’ days are very similar. The New York Giants and the New England Patriots going head to head; and then there’s Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, sure they don’t go ramming into each other while trying to throw a ball into an end zone but close enough to get knee deep in some symbolism. The New England Patriots haven’t lost a game all season – which made the New York Giants underdogs coming into the game.

But when it comes to Super Tuesday, I’m not sure who the underdog is. There’s Clinton and there’s Obama, each have an equal amount of popularity and enough political jargon talk to get the news outlets buzzing.

This is the first election I’ve voted in that I honestly have no idea who is going to win. Normally, I can call it, just like the 2004 election. Even though I didn’t want Bush to be re-elected I knew my vote wasn’t going to do much. This year my vote probably won’t do much by itself, but considering how spilt voters of the Democratic party seem to be – a few hundred to a thousands or so votes could impact the outcome of the primary election.

Just like the Super Bowl game, there’s always a chance of an upset – but we don’t normally get that till the last few minutes of the game. I have a feeling that Super Tuesday might be a lot like the last quarter of the Super Bowl. Hillary wins several states, Obama surges ahead, and in the end someone cashes in on one of the biggest states cementing their victory—leaving everyone else in awe. Setting the stage for the Democrat and Republican wrestling match showdown that everyone has been waiting for.

If the election were a fashion show, all the skinny, stick figure models would be tossed out and women with curves and a little junk in the trunk would be dominating every popular fashion company in the United States. For a long time now the standard profile of a candidate for President was: white, male, old, like to wear suits and makes public speeches. But now with the addition of a black male and white female to the mix the general population seem more interested in whether they want a black guy or a white woman as President. Unfortunately, race and gender seems more important to the general population than their interest in the issues that normally get people into office.

The New York Giants may have unexpectedly won the Super Bowl becoming the reigning victors of the NFL for the coming year. But unlike the Super Bowl, what happens on Super Tuesday will stick around for the next four years.
—Eming Piansay