Today's contests in Alabama, American Samoa, Hawaii, and Mississippi are big, but it's still early.
Dan Balz of The Washington Post answers eight questions about today's contests, including whether Mrs. Clinton will keep fighting to the party convention this summer.
Looking confident and relaxed, the vice president spoke as much of the general election as the primary but insisted he was not "taking a single vote for granted" in today's contests.
An article yesterday about the absence of competition for Senator John Kerry in Massachusetts and the New England region in today's contests misspelled the surname of the chairman of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, who said Mr. Kerry was certain to win.
Correction: March 2, 2004, Tuesday An article yesterday about the absence of competition for Senator John Kerry in Massachusetts and the New England region in today's contests misspelled the surname of the chairman of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, who said Mr. Kerry was certain to win.
The bottom line here is that Romney has enough of a delegate advantage right now and especially coming out of today's contests that it is very unlikely that anyone will catch him, much less catch him and get to 1144.
