Inside the Belly of the Beltway Beast

The 2020 Democratic primary has narrowed down to two long-time politicians, centrist Joe Biden and progressive Bernie Sanders. Many folks on my Facebook and Twitter feed already seem to be assuming that Biden has already won, but the primary is months from its actual conclusion. Super Tuesday has come and gone, a week prior to Super Tuesday Sanders was the clear frontrunner. Now Biden is now leading in number of delegates. The media will spend a lot of time reporting on the percentages of votes candidates will earn in any given, but it truly comes down to a candidate's acquisition of delegates. That is how the eventual nominee is decided at the party's summer convention. Immediately before and a couple days after Super Tuesday candidates quickly dropped out of the race when it became clear they had no path to actually winning the nomination. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen Amy Klobuchar dropped out, consolidating the centrist lane of the race. Meanwhile enthusiasm remained wit