The race for the Democratic presidential nomination will enter a critical new phase on Tuesday when voters in 14 states will head to the polls.

With only five candidates left in the race ahead of California's primary, attention has turned to presidential democratic candidate Joe Biden.

A new poll of likely California Democratic primary voters ranks Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders as first among primary candidates with 26% support, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden at 19%, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 18%, and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 14%.

As you watch the political spectacle that is “Super Tuesday” unfold – 14 states voting, 1,357 pledged Democratic delegates at stake (1,991 delegates secures a first-ballot convention win) – keep in mind: this is not what the Democratic Party had in mind when its more centrist acolytes devised this one-day wonder decades ago.