– ‘Super Tuesday’ –
Some Clinton supporters say Senator Sanders, a transplanted New Yorker and self-declared democratic socialist who now represents Vermont, is little known in the south.
Although Sanders, 74, was in South Carolina Friday, his prospects in the state are poor and he has invested few resources here.
Instead, he is focusing on states like Ohio and Minnesota that vote in March, when a whopping 45 percent of the delegates who will attend the nominating convention are up for grabs.
He is to spend Saturday in Texas and Minnesota, while Clinton will be back in Columbia by night.
Only three percent of delegates for July’s nominating convention in Philadelphia will be awarded by the end of the day.
But the 11 states that hold Democratic nominating contests just days later on Super Tuesday will send a whopping 18 percent of the delegates to Philadelphia.
Clinton is ahead in most of the 11 states, but Sanders has the edge in Massachusetts and his adopted home state of Vermont.
Since he entered the campaign last year, Sanders has made up some lost ground with minorities in terms of face and name recognition.
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