Super Tuesday In MA: What's At Stake In Democratic Primary

BOSTON — Elizabeth Warren hopes to gain ground on Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders when voters in Massachusetts and 13 other states head to the polls to vote in Super Tuesday primaries.

Warren failed to win any of the four contests held so far and has not picked up any delegates since the Feb. 3 Iowa caucus. But after finishing fifth in Saturday's South Carolina's primary, Warren said she had no plans of dropping out and hinted she will try to grab as many delegates as possible and make a play for the nomination at July's Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

"I’ll be the first to say that the first four contests haven’t gone exactly as I’d hoped," Warren said in a speech Saturday in Texas, which also votes on Tuesday. "My campaign is built for the long haul."

Most polling places in Massachusetts are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. You can find your polling place on the Secretary of State's website.

Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer dropped out after the South Carolina primary, leaving five candidates still running for the Democratic presidential nomination on Super Tuesday.

In addition to the primary in Massachusetts and a caucus in American Samoa, primaries are being held in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. At stake are 1,357, or 33.8 percent, of the 3,979 total delegates to the Democratic convention in Milwaukee in July.

In Massachusetts, 91 pledged delegates are up for grabs in the Democratic primary. Of those, 32 will be given out based on the statewide votes totals and 59 will be determined by the results in the state's nine congressional districts.

Who will win the Massachusetts primary?

In a poll released Friday, Warren trailed Sanders by 8 points among likely Democratic primary voters in Massachusetts. But a Boston Globe/WBZ/Suffolk University poll released Saturday had Sanders and Warren in a tie.

The data analysis site FiveThirtyEight, which has been running simulated elections based on polling data, was predicting Monday that Sanders has about a 67 percent chance of winning the most delegates in Massachusetts. The next closest candidate was Warren, who has about a 30 percent chance of winning the most delegates, according to FiveThirtyEight. Sanders has seen a steady rise in polls since the site began its forecasts in mid-January.

As of Monday morning, before reports that Klobuchar was dropping out and endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden, FiveThirtyEight predicted the following pledged delegate counts in Massachusetts for the Democratic candidates:

Follow the money

As of Wednesday, the Democratic candidates spent $1.2 billion, making this the most expensive Democratic campaign in history. While more than half of that total came from Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, the two billionaires in the race, spending by the other candidates was still on pace to break the record set in 2016.

Sanders has raised $133 million, more than any of the other non-billionaire candidate and more than the $130 million Hillary Clinton had raised at this point in 2016. Sanders has seen an uptick in his fundraising since winning the popular vote in three of the first four voting contests.

As of Jan. 31, the remaining Democratic presidential candidates raised the following amounts from contributors in Massachusetts, according to the Federal Elections Commission: