Super Tuesday: How Joe Biden become the comeback kid

Call it the luck of the Irish. Or else call it political consolidation. Or else call it the fact that lots of people in the Democratic establishment appear terrified at the prospect of Bernie Sanders being the party’s presidential nominee.

On Super Tuesday, that much-storied landmark in America’s political calendar, all of those things appeared to combine to further winnow the field and set up a blockbuster finish.

Having been written off as old and out of touch, and with his campaign asking itself how much longer it could continue after dismal results in Iowa and New Hampshire, Joe Biden is back in the game in a major way.