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Buttigieg’s exit is better for Biden than Sanders

Pete Buttigieg’s exit from the presidential race adds another wrinkle to the Democratic contest ahead of Super Tuesday. The exact effects of the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor’s departure, along with Joe Biden’s blowout victory in South Carolina, are unknowable. Still, it’s pretty clear that Buttigieg getting out likely helps […] Read more »

Why Buttigieg Dropped Out

Pete Buttigieg pulled off a surprisingly successful presidential run. … But beating expectations and winning primaries and caucuses are different things. … He had stalled out at around 10 or 11 percent in national polls, and there was a good chance that he would fail to reach 15 percent — […] Read more »

Why Some Suburban Women Are Wary of Bernie Sanders

In the Trump era, the suburbs have been Democrats’ surprising superpower. A revolt by college-educated voters, largely women, in suburbs from Virginia Beach to Oklahoma City, from Houston to Southern California, delivered the House majority to Democrats in 2018. Driven by anxiety over guns, health care and the environment, and […] Read more »

Don’t buy into Joe Biden’s momentum

Former vice president Joe Biden’s stunningly large victory in South Carolina on Saturday will give his campaign much-needed energy going into Super Tuesday. That doesn’t mean he has supplanted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the front-runner. Biden’s win was more a feature of demographics than a serious comeback. South Carolina […] Read more »

California, here they come: Sanders dominates new USA TODAY/Suffolk poll of Super Tuesday’s prize

Bernie Sanders holds a commanding double-digit lead on the cusp of California’s Democratic primary, a new Suffolk University/USA TODAY statewide poll finds, giving the Vermont senator the prospect of capturing the lion’s share of the largest trove of convention delegations in the country on Super Tuesday. CONT. Susan Page, USA […] Read more »