Hillary Clinton dealt Bernie Sanders a demoralizing blow by edging him in the Nevada primary Saturday, and she’s heading into favorable terrain in South Carolina, but operatives said Sanders may still represent a threat if his demographic numbers in Nevada play out elsewhere.

Despite losing to Clinton, 52 percent to 47 percent, on Saturday, Sanders outpaced Clinton among Latino and young voters in Nevada, something he might be able to replicate in liberal states with similar demographics such as Michigan, Minnesota and Colorado — not to mention Massachusetts — all of which vote in the Super Tuesday primaries on March 1.

“I think the jury’s out,” said Philip Johnston, former chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and a Sanders supporter. “If he goes into states like Colorado, where there’s a large number of both younger people because there’s so many universities in Colorado, and liberals and Latinos, he could put a coalition together. He has a lot of money. Both of them have sufficient resources to go the rest of the distance.”

Sanders is expected to lose to Clinton in Saturday’s primary in South Carolina — where the Clintons vacationed when President Bill Clinton was in office — with a heavily black Democratic electorate, a key Clinton constituency. Sanders is slightly behind in most polls taken in the Super Tuesday states, save for his native Vermont.

Democratic strategist Scott Ferson said the key is that Sanders is losing by tight margins thus far, yet trounced Clinton in New Hampshire, and said the game is still on if Sanders can put up wins on Super Tuesday outside of New England.

“The Sanders campaign I think over-promised in Nevada. He said he was going to win and he didn’t, so now they’re a little demoralized,” Ferson said. “We all think it’s over, but in a two-person race, anything can happen.”