Trump towering favorite on Super Tuesday

- Voters in twelve US states go to the polls Tuesday to vote for their intended presidential candidate. Unless all recent polls are wrong, Donald Trump seems the Republicans to take a big step towards the nomination.

On Democratic side, Hillary Clinton hopes her progressive opponent Bernie Sanders to administer the coup de grace.

In almost all countries recently surveyed Trump is in the lead and the lead often lies not: 17 percentage points in Alabama, 23 in Massachusetts, 18 in Tennessee and 13 in Virginia. Senator Ted Cruz in his home state of Texas the lead and Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida, is narrowly leading in Minnesota.

Trump knows further encouraged by the support that some important politicians last week's statements to him. First there was Friday Chris Christie, former presidential candidate and governor of New Jersey. Sunday there was Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama at one of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate.

The electorate in the mostly southern states where voting Tuesday, Clinton's favor. Sanders won in Iowa and New Hampshire, two states with an almost exclusively white electorate. But in South Carolina, where a significant part of the Democratic rank and file is black, Clinton did not chip very Sanders. They captured as much as over 73 percent of the vote.

And in the outlook after Super Tuesday looks favorable for Clinton and Trump. In a national CNN poll that came out Monday, Trump has four Republican opponents in the race, nearly 50 percent of voters behind them. Clinton stands at 55 percent, compared to 38 percent for Sanders.