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Media attention is focused on businessman Donald Trump’s resounding win in the Nevada caucuses last night, and rightfully so. With nearly 46 percent of the vote, Trump finished with almost double his nearest rival, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and his share of the vote puts him close to the 50 percent number that would put to rest many of the assumptions about there being a ceiling on his support that limits his ability to win if and when the race ... Read More >>

Bernie Sanders has built a bigger operation in South Carolina than he has had in any other state thus far in the Democratic presidential primary as he tries to close in on front-runner Hillary Clinton in the last contest ahead of Super Tuesday.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t just want to beat Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. She wants to beat expectations.

She’s running more than 20 points ahead of Sanders in most polls heading into Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary, buoyed by overwhelming support from the state’s black voters. Now she’s looking to the state to re-establish an air of inevitability around her campaign — and deliver such an embarrassing defeat to Sanders that it’s hard for him ever to recover.

Are Rubio and Sanders playing to win?

After Donald Trump’s third-straight victory last night (in the Nevada caucuses) and as Hillary Clinton is set up for a big triumph on Saturday (in South Carolina), it’s become increasingly clear that their top primary opponents aren’t playing to win.

Democratic Delegate Scorecard for Feb. 23, 2016

Now that the primaries are underway, votes and delegates matter more than polls. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would need to win 2,382 of Democrats’ 4,763 delegates to the Philadelphia convention to clinch the nomination. To help you keep track of who’s ahead, the Cook Political Report has devised a delegate scorecard estimating how many delegates Clinton and Sanders would need to win in each primary, caucus, and convention to become the nominee.

Bernie’s South Carolina surrender

With just a few days left until the South Carolina Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders is all but writing the state off.

He hasn’t said that, of course, but his schedule reflects it.

Sanders makes his play for Massachusetts

Hillary Clinton has the Massachusetts Democratic establishment. Bernie Sanders has the progressive grass roots. It’s an uneasy balance that’s reflected in the latest polls, which show a dead heat here.