The real winner of Super Tuesday is the Democratic Party itself

[Zorro]

For months, establishment and center-left Democrats faced a seemingly intractable problem. Multiple moderate and establishment-friendly candidates were staying in the race, each hoping for the opportunity to try to beat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a one-on-one primary fight. But by staying in the race, they were splitting up the moderate lane and allowing Sanders, a progressive outsider, to take the lead. It looked like a classic prisoner’s dilemma: by pursuing their individual goals of stopping Sanders and becoming president, they were helping Sanders on his way to victory.

Prisoners’ dilemmas are notoriously hard to resolve, because they require participants to coordinate and act collectively rather than pursue their narrow self-interests. But in the past week, Democrats seem to have solved theirs. Over the past 72 hours, culminating with Super Tuesday, much of the center-left lane coalesced around Biden, preventing an early and easy knockout win for Sanders. It was a surprising outcome, and one that suggests Democrats have learned some valuable lessons from the bruising interparty contests of recent presidential nominating contests.
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Biden’s resurgence started roughly a week ago in South Carolina. After the former vice president finished second in Nevada, African American voters in South Carolina started to rally around Biden, who had always seen the state as a bulwark. House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, a legendary figure in South Carolina politics, endorsed Biden at precisely the moment when his intervention could do the most good.

After Biden’s blowout win in South Carolina, Democratic leaders across the country started endorsing Biden and two of his chief rivals — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg — dropped out of the race and endorsed him. It’s not clear whether Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out for the good of their wing of the party, to ingratiate themselves with a potential future president or simply to spare themselves future losses. But the effect was the same: Voters across the nation continued to shift their support to Biden, and exit polls suggested that many of them decided whom to vote for only in recent days.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/04/real-winner-super-tuesday-is-democratic-party-itself/

[Cha]

1. It's "clear" to me that Pete & Amy want trump gone and

Democracy Back!

It’s not clear whether Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropped out for the good of their wing of the party...

Hopefully the Real Real Winner is Democracy Itself.

[abqtommy]

2. It's good to remember that when Democrats win it's a win for EVERY person in the U.S. and

around the world. Let's be humble but double down on working towards victory.

[vlyons]

3. Center Dems are not a "wing"

Center Dems are the heart and soul of the Dem party. Biden was not my first choice. But I, like millions of other Dems want to defeat Donny Dimwit for the good of my country. There are many places, where a socialist is simply not going to be palatable to voters. There's more than a few of us around, who well remember the commie-pinko red scare baiting of the cold war. It would start all over again with Sanders, regardless of the irony that Trump is a Russian asset and Putin's puppet.

Most Americans don't even know what socialism is. That social security, unemployment insurance, and interstate highways are socialism.
But we damn sure know what the corruption of justice is. We damn sure know what science is. We damn sure know what suppressing the vote is. We damn sure know what cutting food stamps means. We damn sure know that locking children in cages is evil.

I'm so proud of my fellow Dems, who switched from a different candidate to voting for Biden. He will be a perfectly fine president. He will be a breath of fresh air for all of us. He will enable us to get back on track working for our pet issues and actually getting some accomplishments enacted. He will be good for all those down ballot candidates.

The census is coming, and we need all those state legislatures to correct all the gerrymandered districts.

[Gothmog]

4. I am glad that the Democratic Party won lady night