Time to decide and vote

And now there are eight. The presidential primary election guide you received in the mail last week listed 13 Democratic candidates and President Donald Trump on the Republican ballot. No minor party candidates qualified.

You have 14 days to complete and turn in your ballot. If you wait till next Wednesday the list of candidates might have shrunk. Voters in 14 states will choose 1,357 delegates in the March 3 Super Tuesday primaries. California alone adds 495. Whether frontrunners are solidified, those consistently at the bottom are running out of money and probably momentum.

Some candidates may drop out March 4.

The 89 pledged Washington delegate are the second most of the six states voting March 10, behind Michigan’s 125.

Still in the race today are Joe Biden, former vice president; Mike Bloomberg, former mayor of New York; Pete Buttigieg, former South Bend, Indiana mayor; Senator Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota; Senator Bernie Sanders, Vermont; Tom Steyer, California businessman, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts. You can also vote for uncommited delegates or write in a name.

For your vote to count you must also mark one political party declaration box and sign and date the declaration. You must vote the party you declare, or your vote won’t count..

David Cunningham, Skagit County director of elections, could not make predictions of voter turnout or the ratio of Republican to Democratic votes since voters do not declare a party in registering. He did say that this is the first time Democrats are electing their delegates 100% through an election, rather than using a caucus system. In 2016 Republicans chose their delegates by primary election voting.

Greater La Conner Republicans hold their precinct caucuses 10 a.m. Saturday at the Civic Garden Club on Second Street.