A state-by-state breakdown of what to watch for on Super Tuesday, where 15 contests are up for grabs
MSN, Mar 3, 2020, USA Today

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Alabama
Delegates up for grabs: 52

What to watch: Polls on the Alabama race have been few and far between, so it's unclear how the primary race is shaping up. The last survey, which was conducted in July, found Biden with an almost 20-percentage-point lead. The race has shifted profoundly in the seven months since then.

Biden will be helped by his endorsement from the Alabama Democratic Conference – an influential African American political league. One of the biggest questions will be how many of the state's voters are drawn to Bloomberg after his bombardment of advertising.

On the Republican side, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is fighting to win back his Senate seat in a battle with former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, Rep. Bradley Byrne and former judge Roy Moore. If none of them secures a majority, there will be a runoff between the top two finishers March 31. Whoever locks up the nomination will take on Democratic incumbent Sen. Doug Jones, who will face an uphill battle for reelection in the deeply red state.

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Arkansas
Delegates up for grabs: 31

What to watch: One of the few polls on the race shows Bloomberg with a 1-point lead over Biden. The Talk Business & Politics/Hendrix College poll was conducted Feb. 6-7, before the former New York mayor's lackluster debate performances in Las Vegas and Charleston, South Carolina.

Last month, Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, the capital's first popularly elected African American mayor, endorsed Bloomberg for president.

Early voting is underway in the state and continued through Monday.

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California
Delegates up for grabs: 415

What to watch: Although it's the mother lode of delegates, candidates in past primaries did not always give California the love its millions of Democratic voters felt they deserved, because it did not vote until early June, when the races were generally already decided.

So state Democrats moved up their primary to Super Tuesday, making the state critical to the candidates' chances.

A Suffolk University/USA TODAY statewide poll released Sunday found Sanders with the support of 35% of likely Democratic primary voters, well ahead of Bloomberg at 16%, Biden at 14% and Warren at 12%.

Turnout among Latino voters – who represent a third of the state's eligible voters and only 15% of whom register Republican – is likely to be high. That is probably more good news for Sanders, who won more than half of Latino caucusgoers in neighboring Nevada on Feb. 22, according to entrance polls.

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Colorado
Delegates up for grabs: 67

What to watch: A few facts make Colorado's primary stand out: It conducts all-mail elections; it's one of the only Super Tuesday states with more unaffiliated voters than registered Republicans or Democrats; and this will be its first primary since ditching the caucus format after the 2016 election.

Sanders, who won the state in 2016, appears poised to win it again. Two polls released last week found him with a double-digit lead.

"I think you can predict that Bernie Sanders will likely do well," said Floyd Ciruli, a Denver-based pollster and analyst. "If he wins here, that will show that this state remains a state with a lot of voters who like to shake things up."

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Maine
Delegates up for grabs: 24

What to watch: Like Colorado, Maine ditched the caucus system and, for the first time in two decades, will hold a primary instead.

There hasn't been much polling on the Democratic race in the state, where Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by nearly 30 percentage points. One of the few, a Colby College poll conducted Feb. 10-13, found Sanders ahead at 25%, followed by Bloomberg at 14% and Biden at 12%.

That same poll found Sara Gideon, the speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, leading the Democratic primary to challenge GOP incumbent Sen. Susan Collins in the fall.

Collins, who seeks a fifth term, faces the toughest race of her Senate career in the moderately blue state after voting with President Donald Trump on controversial issues such as impeachment, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the tax cuts in 2017.

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Massachusetts
Delegates up for grabs: 91

What to watch: Warren is in a fight to win her home state, according to a poll conducted by Suffolk University for the Boston Globe and WBZ-TV that found her with the support of 22% of likely Democratic primary voters, trailing Sanders at 24%.

They were followed by Bloomberg (13%), Biden (11%) and Gabbard (4%).

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Minnesota
Delegates up for grabs: 75

What to watch: Sanders won the state in 2016 with 62% of the vote. This year, he has the endorsement of Rep. Ilhan Omar and the liberal group TakeAction Minnesota.

Minnesota Sen. Klobuchar's departure could pave the way for Sanders to walk away with the state's delegates, unless Klobuchar persuades the bulk of her supporters to cast their ballots for Biden, whom she endorsed.

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North Carolina
Delegates up for grabs: 110

What to watch: Trump – who is crushing his lone primary opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld – will hold a rally in Charlotte the night before the primary.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, will be on the ballot in November, and Democratic primary voters will determine Tuesday who will take him on.

The leading candidates to face Tillis are ex-state legislator Cal Cunningham, an Iraq War veteran who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate 10 years ago, and state Sen. Erica Smith. Cunningham has the backing of the national party over Smith, who is more liberal.

In the Democratic presidential race, polls show a tight race with Sanders, Biden and Bloomberg at the top.

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Oklahoma
Delegates up for grabs: 37

What to watch: Sanders has written legislation that would ban hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, which has brought a lot of revenue to Oklahoma but has been blamed for earthquakes and water pollution. Warren, an Oklahoma native, backs such a ban, as does Gabbard.

Bloomberg held a narrow lead in one poll last month, and Biden held a small lead in the other. Both found Sanders close behind in second place.

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Tennessee
Delegates up for grabs: 64

What to watch: Overall, Democrats are more moderate than their counterparts in other parts of the country. Clinton defeated Sanders by 2-to-1 in the state's 2016 primary. This year, the more moderate candidates put a greater emphasis on Tennessee, while the Sanders campaign dedicated relatively little time or resources in the state.

John Geer, political science professor at Vanderbilt University and director of the Vanderbilt Poll, said Sanders could eke out a victory if moderates' votes are split.

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Texas
Delegates up for grabs: 228

What to watch: Texas – long a reliably Republican state and historically neglected by Democratic presidential candidates – suddenly finds itself in unfamiliar territory: a courted state in the middle of a heated Democratic presidential primary season.

The Lone Star State is a major prize, boasting the third-largest delegate count of the entire primary season, behind California and New York.

Biden led in most polls on the Texas race through January (though by margins ranging from 1 to 20 percentage points), but four polls released this week all found Sanders ahead by 4 to 15 percentage points.

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Utah
Delegates up for grabs: 29

What to watch: Like California, Utah is a new addition to the Super Tuesday slate after moving up its primary. It is another state that ditched the caucus format for the presidential primaries after 2016 – although caucuses will still be held this year for other races.

Unaffiliated voters make up more than 20,000 of the 87,224 registered voters in the state, and they are able to vote in the Democratic primary.

Sanders received nearly 80% of the vote in the 2016 caucuses. A Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll released Thursday found him leading as the choice of 28% of Utah's Democratic voters, ahead of Bloomberg (19%), Warren (15%) and Biden (6%).

Vermont
Delegates up for grabs: 16

What to watch: Sanders' home state is probably an easy pickup for the three-term senator (who was elected as the state's congressman eight times).

In 2016, Sanders beat Clinton in Vermont with 86% of the vote.

Virginia
Delegates up for grabs: 99

What to watch: Virginia, once a Republican stronghold, has shifted blue in recent elections. Its Democratic voters tend to lean more moderate, giving Clinton a nearly 30-point win over Sanders in 2016.

Polling indicates moderates could split their votes between Biden and Bloomberg, who has put his ample resources to work in the state, opening more than a half-dozen offices.

American Samoa Democratic caucuses
Delegates up for grabs: 6

What to watch: Clinton won the U.S. territory in 2016 with nearly 73% of the vote to Sanders' 27%.

The polling site FiveThirtyEight gives Biden and Sanders roughly the same chances of winning the caucuses.


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Tue, Mar 3 Alabama primary Open

Tue, Mar 3 American Samoa Dem caucus Closed

Tue, Mar 3 Arkansas primary Open

Tue, Mar 3 California primary Mixed

Tue, Mar 3 Colorado primary Open

Tue, Mar 3 Maine primary Closed

Tue, Mar 3 Massachusetts primary Mixed

Tue, Mar 3 Minnesota primary Open

Tue, Mar 3 North Carolina primary Mixed

Tue, Mar 3 Oklahoma primary Closed

Tue, Mar 3 Tennessee primary Open

Tue, Mar 3 Texas primary Open

Tue, Mar 3 Utah primary Closed

Tue, Mar 3 Vermont primary Open

Tue, Mar 3 Virginia primary Open

Quote: Right_in_Virginia wrote in post #6

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Tue, Mar 3 Virginia primary Open

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After action report.

Just voted in the VA Demonrat Primary. Interesting ...

The first thing I noticed was when any person got near the doors, he or she was both pushed and pulled into the voting arena by cheerful Sherpa guides. (Not kidding). I thought this would be my favorite part of the experience, but no!

There wasn't a line, but a lot of mlling and discussion in the anteroom. From these small groups arose "I hate this president", "Me, too!", "OMG, yes!" When I heard "anybody but Trump!" I meandered over to one small group and interrupted as the sage elder saying: "if you're serious about this, then vote for Bernie. He is the ONLY one who can beat Trump in November! I've been doing this a LONG time. Trust me."

I voted (for Bernie) and met up with the gals outside, still quite excited about the prospect of defeating the President. All six of them had voted for Bernie.

Catturd ™‏ @catturd2

Joe Biden has posted the Super Tuesday states to help get out the vote ...

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8:49 AM - 3 Mar 2020

https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1234883671330607104

@Right_in_Virginia

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Dear Bernie supporters ...

Get off your lazy ass and pay for your own damn stuff.

You're not my children.

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Primary money spent ...

Michael Bloomberg - $700,000,000

Catturd - $0.00
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Delegates won ...

Michael Bloomberg - 0

Catturd - 0

You tell me who the best businessman is.

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