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Super Tuesday Primer: Delaware

The next stop on TNR's Super Tuesday Primer is the lovely state of Delaware:"While Delaware is starved for delegates, head-scratchingly small, and often maligned for not being a “real state,” its demographics are unique, and may be key to predicting Tuesday’s winners. Twenty-one percent of the state’s population is black, 7 percent Hispanic and over 20 percent lives in rural areas. The transitory culture (Senator Joe Biden has commuted to Washington regularly since the 1970s) and business-oriented industry may favor Eastern establishment figures Clinton and Romney, while the big black vote may push Obama over the finish line..."

Click here for your complete Super Tuesday rundown for Delaware. Check out our Super Tuesday Primer for analysis of new states every day leading up to February 5.

--The Editors