Something to know about Super-Duper Tuesday

All of the Democratic primaries have proportional representation. That means that any vote from anywhere having a primary that day counts toward delegates.

So even if Obama was getting hammered in California polls, it would still benefit him to campaign in places he could generate a big local vote. (like Oakland, which I assume would go huge for him). Even if he didn't think he wouldn't win California, the voters be could persuade/turn-out would count for their fair percentage of California's huge delegate pool.

This creates a situation where super Tuesday is unlike a Presidential election. (The electoral college system makes states winner take all.)

So rather than campaigning in a state, the candidates will campaign in regions and TV markets, and it will sometimes be more efficient to campaign in hopeless high-population states than in states you might win.

Barack will win delegates in New York and Hillary will win delegates in Illinois. The difference between losing with 20% in California versus losing with 30% in California is probably bigger, in delegates, than some entire states. And so on...

Under the electoral college, each state gets to decide what to do with its votes. There are a few that apportion the electors proportionaly though I can't remember which ones)

There are no proportional systems in place yet.

I was calling it proportianal, but technically it is not. Thanks

It's all good. I'm just a huge elections nerd and I like to nit-pick. Haha.