It feels as if the Democratic primary has been going on forever. 10 debates. Twenty-eight projects launched, 23 folded. Hundreds of countless dollars in marketing. And yet, regardless of all that, just 149 vowed delegates– of an eventual 3,979– have been granted up until now. Nothing has in fact been decided.
With strong provings in the very first 3 states, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (58 delegates) is the person to beat. However previous vice president Joe Biden (50 delegates) revived his moribund project with a landslide success in South Carolina over the weekend. That outcome triggered former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar to end their projects, which will likely push more moderate citizens towards Biden. (However not necessarily! Voters are unpredictable.) Biden and Sanders now look like the clear front-runners, with Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and previous New york city mayor Michael Bloomberg jockeying for 3rd. With so few votes locked in, whatever stays highly speculative.
That might all alter on Super Tuesday.
Voters in 14 states, plus American Samoa, will cast their tallies. (Democrats living abroad will cast theirs throughout the next week.) That consists of big states like Texas and, signing up with Super Tuesday for the very first time, California– which as the most populated state in the union is by far the biggest reward in the main. The electoral mathematics will alter. Here are some of the essential numbers that assist explain how.
This is the number of delegates won in South Carolina by anyone not called Biden or Sanders. That was a particularly tough blow for billionaire Tom Steyer, who had focused his project strategy (and lavish spending) on winning the state. Following the loss, he quickly ended his project, with Buttigieg following suit quickly