On March 1, Super Tuesday, Sanders and Clinton will contest 11 states, with
a total of 865 delegates up for grabs. According to polls released on Wednesday by Public Policy Polling, Hillary Clinton
holds commanding leads in eight of those states, and also maintains a narrow lead in a ninth state, Oklahoma.
Of the Super Tuesday states, only Sanders’ home state of Vermont and its New England neighbor Massachusetts appear to be firmly in the Bernie Sanders camp, according to the PPP polls.
Five of the Super Tuesday states — Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia — are in the southeast, where Clinton is believed by most political experts to
hold her “firewall” of invulnerability and polling results appear to bear out the conventional wisdom.
Not only does Clinton lead Sanders by no less than 22 percentage points in each of those five Southeastern states, in the PPP poll, she also has a stranglehold on the state of Texas, with its 222 delegates, leading Sanders 57 to 34 there. And, in Louisiana, which holds its primary just four days after Super Tuesday on March 5, Clinton holds a dominating 60-29 lead.