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(Dukes' Dispatch) - On Tuesday March third citizens of 14 states went to the polls to decide who they want to be the Democratic Nominee for President of the United States. The states that voted were Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. After a full day of citizens casting their ballots the results came in and they happened to be very good news for former Vice President Joe Biden.

Biden had seemed all but finished after coming in fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire, and in a distant second in Nevada. But he made a quick rebound after finishing in a strong first in South Carolina. He did so well that it led to three candidates, Tom Steyer, Pete Buttigeig, and Amy Klobuchar, dropping out.

This made it a four way race between Vice President Biden, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. They campaigned for the two days between South Carolina and Super Tuesday and then prepared for what would happen.

The first two poll closings happened at seven o'clock pm and the states were Vermont and Virginia. Both of the states were called right at closing, with Sanders taking his home state Vermont by a large margin, and Biden taking Virginia, also by a large margin.

Virginia being called at closing was quite a surprise to many people, considering that up until the final days Sanders and Biden were in a dead heat, but it is believed that Steyer, Buttigeig, and Klobuchar's exits from the race and endorsements of the former Vice President greatly helped him in the state.

It also helped Biden In North Carolina, which was also called at closing.

Between North Carolina being called and the closing of the bigger states of Texas and California, many other states were called in pretty quick and unsurprising fashions.

Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee were called for Biden, whilst Colorado and Utah were called for Senator Sanders. Other states that closed during that time were Massachusetts, Maine, and Minnesota, and they were much closer and took much longer to call.

Finally by 11 o'clock the two big states, California and Texas had closed. Texas was a slog that took nearly half a day to call, while California was called nearly immediately for Senator Sanders.

In California the only thing that was to be wondered was by how much would Sanders win, but in Texas the whole night was spent with lead change after lead change. For a while it seemed as if Bernie would win, but by the end Joe Biden had created a very small lead that couldn't be passed.

By the end of the next day all of the states had been called, with Maine, Massachusetts, and Minnesota also being called for Vice President Biden.

Though results are still coming in from the very large state of California, at this moment the delegate count is as such, Biden now is in the lead with 566, Sanders is in second with 495, and then third is Elizabeth Warren with 41.

The day after Super Tuesday saw Mayor Mike Bloomberg end his brief and expensive campaign, which was followed by a Biden endorsement. And then the next day saw Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was a frontrunner in late September, also exit the race; she has not endorsed another candidate yet.