What Went Down On Super Tuesday

The clearest dividing line in the primary thus far is age. Younger voters tend to prefer Sanders while older voters prefer Biden — a pattern that’s held true across the four early states. But barring huge voter turnout among younger voters, Biden could stand to pick up even more older voters tonight, as both Klobuchar and Buttigieg also did relatively better among older voters, especially in whiter states.

Bloomberg’s campaign manager apparently just told reporters in Florida, “I think Mike Bloomberg is either the candidate for the party or the single most important person helping that candidate defeat Donald Trump” — but then added that he’s “absolutely not” dropping out tonight.

Based on the preliminary exit polls, Democratic primary voters have more favorable views of socialism than unfavorable ones, though it definitely varies in the states where this question was asked. In Maine and Texas, a pretty sizable majority had positive views of socialism, while things were more evenly split in North Carolina and Tennessee. I checked to see if there was a relationship between views of socialism and the share of the electorate that was liberal, but there wasn’t really a clear one. Although 72 percent of voters in Maine and 59 percent of voters in Texas voters were liberal, the ideological makeup of Texas’s electorate was about the same as voters in North Carolina (58 percent liberal) and Tennessee (56 percent liberal).