Several Tennesseans tried to cast votes in the presidential primary, thinking that their state was part of Super Tuesday. They weren’t alone. Vice President Al Gore seemed to think so, too. Knox County registrar Pat Crippens said, ‘I just got off the phone with a gentleman. I had to explain we’re not Super Tuesday, we’re just next Tuesday.’ His office got about 30 calls from confused voters. In 1988, Tennessee and 12 other Southern states decided to hold their presidential primaries on the second Tuesday of March, dubbing it ‘Super Tuesday’ in hopes of gaining national political clout. Several Northern states also held their primaries that day. More than a dozen states have since moved their primaries to the first Tuesday of the month, creating a new ‘Super Tuesday.’ Tennessee – the vice president’s home state – is among six that have stuck with March 14. As reporters and photographers watched from the lobby of his Nashville headquarters on Tuesday, Gore called a ‘Miss Ferris’ and told her, ‘Today is the presidential primary in Tennessee.’ His expression changed as he listened to her. ‘Well, you know, that is right. You are absolutely right,’ he said before hanging up and quickly dialing the next number on his voter call list. Al Gore