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The Key Question for the Sanders Campaign

February 12th, 2020 | 6 min read

By Jake Meador

Last night Bernie Sanders, unsurprisingly, won the New Hampshire primary. FiveThirtyEight now gives him a 38% of winning the Democratic nomination—his leading rival, at this point, is a brokered convention, which the site gives a 33% chance of happening. Prior to Iowa, there were three plausible ways for the Democratic primary season to wrap up: It could follow the pattern of the Republican primary in 2012 with former VP Joe Biden playing the part of Mitt Romney—the obvious (and obviously flawed) favorite fending off a revolving door of increasingly implausible opponents. That door began to close in Iowa. It was slammed shut last night. Biden is done.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, National Review, Comment, Books & Culture, and Christianity Today. He is a contributing editor with Plough and a contributing writer at the Dispatch. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.