If you live in a Super Tuesday state, make sure to vote. Even if we are currently down in the polls in your state.
Remember, the Democratic primaries and caucuses are not winner-take-all. Delegates are distributed proportionally to the percentage of the vote a candidate gets. So don't assume that your vote doesn't matter if you live in a state where Bernie is polling below Clinton. We need to pick up as many delegates as possible. So don't sit on your hands. Get out and vote. And drag as many of your friends and family to the polls to do the same.
Posted Mar 1, 2016, 1:31 PM UTC · edited
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Especially if we are down in the polls! Delegate counts are based on voting percentage, and 1 extra vote raises the vote percentage by a greater amount if we are not doing well.
If we are at 30/100 voters, going to 31/101 raises our percentage by about 0.7%; if we're at 70/100 voters, going to 71/101 raises our percentage by only 0.3%.
EDIT: Suppose that in a given state, Hillary gets 100,000 votes. If we get only 50,000 votes, we get 33%. To get to 50%, we need only another 50,000 votes. But to get to 66%, we need another 100,000 votes (200,000 total, 150,000 more than the original 50,000). So yes, the states and districts where we are most behind are exactly the ones where we need you the most! Although, if you're in Vermont, show up, because 85% + 1 vote means we can leave Hillary with a big fat goose egg for the state.