What Went Down On Super Tuesday

I’ll make a conditional prediction: If Sanders loses the primary, I’ll write a long essay about the merits and demerits of his focus-on-your-base strategy. His strategy has grown on me a lot over the course of the campaign, actually. But we may be seeing its downside now.

With Biden’s win in Arkansas, we’re now down to only 895 simulations, and Sanders’s majority chances continue to get slimmer.

We’ve talked a lot on this site about Sanders and the way he handles his front-runner status: He is not a person who’s welcoming new voters into his tent necessarily. You’re certainly seeing that in this speech; he’s attacking Biden pretty scathingly. Which makes sense! That’s his main rival. But it’s not a unity tone. Such is 2020!