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Super Tuesday, also known as the most important day in the GOP presidential nomination race, is a true testing day which will foreshadow whether Mitt Romney is able to break away from his rivals and regain his lead. Mitt Romney is the most likely beneficiary of the states' complex allocation rules. If he can gain enough of the vote in Idaho, Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia, he stands to be the sole winner of the combined 133 delegates from those states, almost a third of the 419 delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday. Super Tuesday is not however a "winner-take-all" contest, but it does offer candidates some chance of shutting out their opponents in the all-important race to amass delegates.