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It's the South Carolina primary, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has his sights set on Massachusetts. While many other candidates remain in the Palmetto State, Sanders flew north Friday
evening and held a Saturday rally in Boston. Massachusetts is a Super Tuesday state, so the timing checks out, but Sanders' presence there is notable primarily because it's the
home state of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), his closest ideological competitor in the race. There's not a lot of data on Massachusetts, but some polls hint at a tight race between
the two New Englanders, per _The New York Times_. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE &
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news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Warren, who struggled this month in neighboring New Hampshire, on Saturday
declined to call Massachusetts a must-win state, despite serving as its senator, and said she isn't surprised Sanders is campaigning there because it's a "very progressive
state and progressive ideas are very popular." But the Sanders campaign may also have zeroed in on Massachusetts precisely because a victory could result in, as the _Times_ describes
it, a "symbolic blow" to Warren's once-promising campaign. Read more at _The New York Times_.