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    The picture of the U.S. presidential race has hardly been cloudy for some time, even if it is one that most voters say they don't want to see.

    On not-so-Super Tuesday, there were few surprises. It became ever clearer President Joe Biden was on a path to the Democratic nomination that only some kind of personal catastrophe could alter.

    His White House predecessor, Donald Trump is headed to a third Republican nomination, and a rematch against Biden - if Trump can navigate the 91 criminal charges against him and avoid any other calamity. Trump's last major GOP challenger, Nikki Haley, suspended her campaign on Wednesday after being soundly defeated across the country on Super Tuesday.

    Enthusiasm for Biden was not the story of Tuesday's primary contests, with some Democrats even voting 鈥渦ncommitted鈥 rather than for the incumbent. For Trump, there were cautionary signs even with his string of victories.

    Here are some key takeaways from Super Tuesday:

    Haley's stepping aside

    Haley won her first state of the primary season, Vermont, but that was no cause to talk about momentum. The former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor continued her long streak of losing big to Trump in Republican primaries in every region of the country. Her lone other victory had come in last week's primary in the District of Columbia.

    She fell short even in states like Virginia, where the electorate, rich in college-educated suburban voters, played to her strength. Soon came the announcement about her campaign suspension.

    That doesn't mean her candidacy wasn't impactful. She repeatedly said that Trump cannot win a general election, in large part because he will have trouble winning over the kind of Republicans who supported her. In a close election, even a small move of voters away from Trump could flip a state and alter the outcome.

    Haley didn't endorse Trump during her remarks Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina. She challenged him to win the support of the moderate Republicans and independent voters who backed her.

    During her campaign, Haley delivered the kind of stark personal attacks on Trump that could show up in Democratic ads against him in the fall. She slammed him for a US$83 million judgment against him for defaming a woman who sued him for sexual assault and warned that he could transform the Republican National Committee into his own 鈥渓egal slush fund.鈥

    As Vermont goes, so goes Vermont

    Vermont was once a stronghold of old-guard Republicanism, exclusively electing GOP candidates to statewide office for more than a century. But the state that handed Haley her only win on Super Tuesday long ago ceded that reputation.

    Now Vermont, which last swung for a Republican in a presidential contest in 1988, is perhaps better known for progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, the jam band Phish and a crunchy strain of back-to-earth lifestyle.

    So, while Vermont handed Haley her first statewide victory, the state itself is decidedly not in step with Trump and the modern Republican Party.

    The Biden-Trump mirror primary

    What has been obvious for weeks, is now beyond reasonable dispute: Biden and Trump are the overwhelming favourites to face each other in November.

    They could not be more different in outlook but they seemed to be mirror images of each other during the primary season.

    Trump wanted a coronation, but Haley made him fight at least somewhat to win the nomination. She's held onto a stubborn chunk of voters, a possible indication that part of the GOP isn't as enthusiastic about Trump as expected.

    Biden, on the other hand, faces a lack of Democratic enthusiasm on paper, but not in the primary. Polls show problems for him among some of his party's core demographics, including younger and Black voters. But Biden, who hasn't faced any significant challengers, has won his primaries by huge margins.

    The only possible sign of trouble for him Tuesday was an unusually high number of Democrats voting 鈥渦ncommitted鈥 in Minnesota in protest of the president's handling of the war in Gaza.

    It may be that one or both of these two politicians is more hobbled than it appears - but nonetheless, they are the only options.

    House races, primary primacy

    Super Tuesday is so vast that there were primaries for more than one-quarter of all seats in the House of Representatives - 115 of 438. But only eight of those seats are likely to be competitive in November.

    That astonishing statistic comes from Michael Li, a redistricting expert at the Brennan Institute for Justice in New York. That means that most House candidates who won primaries Tuesday are guaranteed seats in Congress, just for securing the votes of the most motivated members of their parties.

    That's one of the greatest causes of polarization in the United States. The number of competitive seats in the House has been shrinking steadily for decades. It reflects both partisan gerrymandering and also citizens sorting themselves into increasingly partisan enclaves.

    Texas is an example of gerrymandering's role. In 2018 and 2020 it was home to several competitive House races as Democrats began to gain ground in the long-red state. So Republicans who controlled the statehouse simply redrew the lines to protect Republicans, lumping large groups of Democrats together. That meant the Democrats had safe seats but fewer than they normally would have because they couldn't threaten any GOP incumbents.

    Regardless of the cause, it means that much of the battle for the House actually ended Tuesday night.

    N.C. race could echo Biden v. Trump

    North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson easily won the state's Republican gubernatorial primary. His incendiary rhetoric - he's called Hillary Clinton a 鈥渉eifer鈥 and Michelle Obama a man - ensures a hotly contested general election in the crucial swing state that could spill over into the presidential race.

    Robinson had no prior experience in public office before his 2020 election - and it shows.

    He blasted the action hero movie 鈥淏lack Panther鈥 in 2018 as a 鈥渟atanic Marxist production鈥 made by a 鈥渟ecular Jew,鈥 using a Yiddish slur for black people. He faced calls to resign in 2021 after likening gay and transgender people to 鈥渇ilth.鈥

    His brash style earned plaudits from Trump, who on Sunday called Robinson 鈥渂etter than Martin Luther King鈥 while offering his 鈥渃omplete and total endorsement.鈥

    But it is also likely to motivate Democrats in the state to turn out in November to support state Attorney General Josh Stein - while raising oodles of advertising dollars to use Robinson's own words against him.

    Biden & Iowa: 4th time's the charm

    On his fourth try, Joe Biden finally won Iowa.

    For decades, Biden had been rejected by its voters, from his first abortive run in the 1988 cycle to 2020, when he finished a distant fourth. In 2008, he won less than 1% of the caucus vote.

    This time, Iowa wasn't first and it was a primary, not a caucus, and Biden won easily.

    His victory Tuesday came only after he was already an incumbent president - and after the state had been stripped of its prized leadoff role and voted along with the masses.

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