Campaigns, volunteers get-out-the-vote before Super Tuesday

Phone banking is how Colorado College student Lily Benjamin supports Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination. Benjamin donated $3 to the campaign.

“I don’t have a lot of money to donate, but I want to support him in every way I can,” Benjamin said.

Sanders needs to win in Colorado. He stopped in Fort Collins on Sunday night to rally voters at Colorado State. Across town at the Hillary Clinton office, supporters are picking up phones making sure they’re voters get to the caucus.

“I’ve been following Hillary since the ’90s,” Monument’s Stacia Cushing said. “I love the work she does. She’s the most qualified, hard working compassionate candidate we have running right now.”

Republicans will caucus, but won’t vote for a winner, a decision by state party leadership that has prompted the GOP contenders to skip campaigning in Colorado all together.

If there was ever a time when you might want to throw a vote it would be tomorrow night,” Colorado College political science professor Bob Loevy said. “Colorado Republicans won’t get to do that. It’s a colossal disenfranchisement. 70,000 people have lost their right.”

If you’re planning to caucus Tuesday night, doors close at 7 p.m. The parties recommend arriving at 6:30 p.m.