CBS News - Super Tuesday - 1988-03-08 - 2 of 2
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[0:02] CBS Late Night will begin immediately
[0:04] following this CBS News special
[0:06] broadcast.
[0:10] >> I'm going to be the next president of
[0:12] the United States. Thank you all very
[0:15] much.
[0:17] >> A super super Tuesday for George Bush.
[0:23] Thank you all very much.
[0:49] CBS News coverage of Campaign 88
[0:51] continues tonight. Super Tuesday.
[0:54] Reporting from CBS News election
[0:56] headquarters in New York, here is Dan
[0:58] Rather.
[0:59] >> Good evening again. On a pretty
[1:01] interesting political night, George Bush
[1:03] sweeps the boards clean on Super
[1:05] Tuesday, at least so far. Massachusetts
[1:07] Governor Michael Dakus emerges sort of
[1:09] from the mut among Democrats, winning
[1:12] the two biggest of the big ones on this
[1:13] Super Tuesday 20 state primary and
[1:16] caucus night. to caucus winning Texas
[1:18] and Florida. But and an important but
[1:20] Jesse Jackson and Al Gore have
[1:22] significant bankable wins too as a third
[1:25] at the delegates to the Republican and
[1:26] Democratic conventions went up for grabs
[1:29] tonight. Dau has stepped out a little
[1:31] but he's hearing the patter of feet
[1:32] Jackson and Gore behind him. Key
[1:34] questions raised this evening. Is George
[1:37] Bush now such a front runner that no
[1:39] second can possibly catch up? Can
[1:41] anybody stop Bush? Is there any clear
[1:43] front runner among the Democrats? what's
[1:45] ahead for them on this night of 16
[1:48] primaries and four caucuses, most not
[1:50] all of them in the South. Let's finish
[1:52] up some of the unfinished business of
[1:54] the evening with the late results. We'll
[1:56] start first with the Idaho caucuses.
[1:58] Haven't heard much from out there. Our
[1:59] CBS News estimate is that M