There's a robust history of late-primary “buyer’s remorse” candidacies aimed at a front-runner elites don’t like. The thing is, they never seem to actually work. ed_kilgore writes
Sanders is in a good position to sweep Iowa and New Hampshire. Photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images There are a lot of influential people who think that nominating Bernie Sanders to face Donald Trump would be tantamount to hand-delivering reelection to the president. I don’t agree, though I am also unconvinced by the Sanders campaign’s claims that he is uniquely electable.
Now what that actually means, of course, depends in no small part on what happens to the rest of the field even as Bernie romps. It’s unclear Pete Buttigieg can go on much longer if he loses in Iowa and in New Hampshire, which have been his best two states all along. To the extent Sanders and Warren are drawing from a pool of voters that significantly overlaps, losing to Bernie thrice could be deeply problematic for her.
So in that scenario, the two late-septuagenarian white men representing very different ideological wings of the Democratic Party and two very different demographic groupings could have an epic clash in the 14 states holding primaries on Super Tuesday and the additional ten states voting in the ensuing two weeks. The calendar offers ripe targets for both of them, and tons of delegates .
In the process of spending unprecedented amounts in the Super Tuesday and later states, Bloomberg has steadily raised his name ID and support level in national polls, and there’s no particular reason to doubt he will continue to spend and climb as the field gets winnowed in the early states.
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