What Went Down On Super Tuesday
Micah, I keep thinking about what would have happened if instead of bankrolling himself, Bloomberg had handed $500 million to, say, Cory Booker.
Maine continues to count its votes, with Biden now enjoying a lead of less than a percentage point. Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest city, has now reported, and Biden’s victory there closely matched his current margin in the state — he won 33.7 percent of the vote to Sanders’s 32.3.
We’ve seen throughout the night that there’s a major difference between voters who decided early and those who decided in the last few days — Sanders consistently does a lot better among earlier deciders, while Biden has the advantage among late deciders. And while Biden was the favorite in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia in our preelection forecast, that only really happened in the last few days.
