Super Tuesday, March 1, will decide 21% of the Democratic Convention delegates. They are going to be elected proportionally to the votes in the states. Of the 4,763 delegates, 712 are super delegates composed of Congressmen, Governors, and members of the Democratic National Committee. The remaining 4,051 pledged delegates are elected. So 14.9% of the delegates are super-delegates. Of the 712 super-delegates, 453 have opted for Hillary Clinton, and 20 have opted for Bernie Sanders. Of course, they can always change as time goes by.
So, having spent around eight months of campaigning in the four February states with 4.6% of the Democratic delegates at stake, the Democratic candidates have only a few days to campaign for 21% of the delegates in the 11 states and one territory of Super Tuesday. That shows that the psychological necessity of gaining the image of “momentum” is more important than meeting with voters of all the states to find out what the important issues are to them. It also doesn’t allow the candidates to “nationalize” their campaign issues. Networks could have been holding debates in most of the Super Tuesday states along with the February states to emphasize the importance of national issues.
The Democratic primaries and delegates in Super Tuesday are:
Alabama 60
Arkansas 37
Georgia 117
Massachusetts 116
Oklahoma 42
Tennessee 76
Texas 251
Vermont 26
Virginia 109
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Total 834
The Democratic caucuses are separated out as delegates may be assigned later in a state convention:
America Samoa 11
Colorado 79
Minnesota 93
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Total 183
The Super Tuesday total is then 834 + 183 = 1,017. Out of the 4,763 delegates, that is 21.4% being elected on Super Tuesday.
Texas is by far the biggest state, with 251 delegates, being 24.7% of the Super Tuesday delegates, and 5.27% of the total convention delegates.
