Unless you’ve been living under a rock or refuse to check in with any of the news media outlets, you probably know that Super Tuesday is upon us today.

Also dubbed Tsunami Tuesday, and even more dramatically as The Tuesday of Destiny, this particular day is in charge of rolling the dice as far as the upcoming elections go: the day on which the largest simultaneous number of state U.S. presidential primary elections in the history of U.S. primaries will be taking place. This term began in 1988, when many southern states decided to hold their primaries on the same day to try to boost their political importance (in relation to the importance of the New Hampshire primary and Iowa caucuses).

Exciting, isn’t it?
It almost made us forget about Mardi Gras, which is also being celebrated today!

No matter where you are, there are plenty of ways to catch up to speed with expansive news coverage of this very important day. So now that you’ve exercised your legal right to vote, join 5min as we reveal a new side of the leading Democratic candidates, as created exclusively for 5min by world-renowned balloon artist Ori Livney:

Ori, an industrial engineer by profession, is an absolute balloon Jedi, as you can see below. I was blown away by his wearable art projects, like this dress, which took over 7 hours to make! Just imagine the drive, dedication and insane creativity behind it all! Entire outfits crafted from balloons… Who knew, right?

You are most welcome to check out Ori’s online gallery, as well as drop by and see his 5min studio.

As for today’s primaries… From across the pond, things look quite interesting. For those of you who are voting for the very first time (Awww! I remember mine!), WireTap has a concise voter’s guide, giving away some great last minute basics for the confused citizen. If it’s the cold hard numbers you are after, you might want to check out the data polls. Enchanted Learning has a terrific glossary to help guide you through the long political haul leading up to the real thing - the Presidential election in November.



Another fascinating read can be found here, with this study from May 2007 by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy, mapping who is likely to win the coming elections. Schulman’s algorithm was able to accurately predict who would win the 2004 elections, and his 2003 algorithm for determining the winners of United States presidential elections correctly determined the winner of each of the 55 presidential elections between 1789 and 2004. However, this year looks like enough of an anomaly to knock the wind out of that algorithm.

Happy campaigning, and may the best human win!