Super Tuesday was purposely designed to push the Party into the claws of the establishment.

CNN has already begun making the Clinton case for Sanders to either withdraw or tone down his criticisms. This is exactly the kind of perverse anti-democratic momentum Super Tuesday is designed to generate. I hope Bernie and his supporters are willing to fight through the propaganda blitz to which we're about to be subjected. There are plenty of states left to vote and there is plenty of time left for voters to recognize that Clinton's sure thing candidacy is, in reality, a train just waiting to derail. Sanders really does need to stay in the race. There's a nomination waiting to be won and a movement needing to grow even stronger.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/27/opinions/super-tuesday-why-opinion-zelizer/

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Created in its current form in 1984 as a counterweight to the ability of insurgents to succeed in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, Southern Democrats had envisioned a day with numerous contests in their region to assert their collective power in deciding who should be the party nominee.

This would allow them to push the party back toward the center and the establishment, serving a similar function as the South Carolina primary for Republicans. Based on a report by the Hunt Commission, several Southern states agreed to front-load the Democratic primaries in order to have a bigger impact.

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