Is it really an outlier? I think it’s incredibly easy to chalk his Massachusetts loss to Warren, but when you look at Minnesota results it seems a heck of a lot like there’s not the appetite for his brand in the way there was in 2016. Probably because of the two things we’ve discussed in the last thread - Hillary Clinton isn’t there to be hated, and a segment of his voters are probably fine with Donald Trump and didn’t vote.
For the record, in this case, I’m relating Minnesota to Michigan. For the conversation I was having with Irvine last thread, I firmly believe the left-wing-willing encompasses some 40-45% of the party and Sanders is still very much so capable of drawing that, but unlike 2016, it looks like he is more likely to get thst from places that actually make sense (California, Washington, Oregon, generally the West).
Like I said before though, Minnesota and Massachusetts were the big stories on Super Tuesday that nobody made big enough deals about. A strange focus on how Biden was killing it in places like Tennessee and Oklahoma and Arkansas.