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Super Tuesday Comes, And Everything’s Changed
Candidates Buttigieg and Klobuchar clear out
And if Warren doesn’t win Massachusetts, and Bloomberg doesn’t pick up a boatload of delegates, we can’t imagine their departures won’t be far behind. But who knows? Especially in Bloomberg’s case: he’s got all the money in the world. And let’s not forget with fewer others in the race they have much more of a chance now to reach that crucial 15% threshold, and accumulate delegates even without winning.
We won’t comment too much further today, or prognosticate. Only to say it’s a little refreshing and calming to have what seems like only two highly probable outcomes for Super Tuesday:
- Bernie picks up a huge load of delegates, and the Biden surge proves illusory. Or…
- Biden’s momentum carries him to a big day, peeling off delegates in places like California and Massachusetts, even though he’s not likely to win either.
Or maybe Warren or Bloomberg will produce a big surprise. Politics has no shortage of those these days. Although it’s less likely given the rigor with which those two have tried to do each other in.
So we’ll see.
It is interesting to us that everybody left in the Presidential contest right now is over 70. And on the Democratic…