Does a political state delegate actually do anything that matters to the party?
The delegate is a representative of the people in the state. When the state votes – the majority vote gives the winning candidate all the delegates in the state (at this point- this is for each party’s convention). Each state is allotted so many candidates based on population. At the national convention, those delegates then vote according to who won the state. The candidate who gets the majority of votes then in the winning candidate. The delegate can’t make up his/her own mind on who to vote for but they are a symbol of all the people who voted for the candidate.
