I Can't Believe Biden is Winning in Massachusetts

For all of Joe Biden's success on Super Tuesday I am most astonished that he is leading in Massachusetts.

With 62% of the results in, Biden is leading Bernie Sanders by nearly 7% of vote (34% to 27.1%) with Elizabeth Warren is in third at 20.5% of the vote. That would Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts.

Now I wasn't expecting Warren to win Massachusetts, but I did expect a very close second to Bernie Sanders. After all, Vermont shares a border with Massachusetts.

But I was not expecting Biden to win Massachusetts let alone place or show. After all we are only three weeks removed from Biden being nowhere near New Hampshire as he finished fifth without a delegate. But a respectable second place finish in Nevada, two solid debate performances (unlike Michael Bloomberg) and a runaway win in South Carolina and now the Democratic Party is coalescing around Biden. Well, most of it is anyway.

If Warren is losing to Biden by double digits in the state she represents in the U.S. Senate then what is her rationale to remain in the race? To pester Bloomberg? After spending $120 million to win American Samoa it looks like he's getting out tomorrow. So she would have no foil there. If she wants to be Biden's VP she won't endear herself by staying in the race. Unless she's trying to be a kingmaker to Sanders, a man with whom she had a shouting match in front of the whole world a month and a half ago. Or is she just in love with the sound of her voice? She sure sounded like it when she spoke in Michigan earlier tonight.

Warren can be as vain as she wants. She is not winning the Democratic Party nomination. If Joe Biden can win over Democrats in Massachusetts then he can win over Democrats everywhere up to and including Milwaukee. Whether he can win over the rest of the nation very much remains to be seen.