A key part of the United States election process is the state-by-state election by  the  country’s two political parties of  their delegates to the national conventions who will choose the party candidates for president this November. With Republican President Donald Trump running for reelection, with no rival for the party nomination, focus now  is on the Democrats who are  holding state-by-state primaries  and caucuses to pick their national convention delegates. The Iowa Democrats picked Pete Buttiegieg on February 3, while Bernie Sanders won in New Hampshire on February 11 and in Nevada on February 22.  South Carolina will vote on February 29, followed by 14 states and two jurisdictions on March 4—known as Super Tuesday. They are Alabama, American Samoa, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Democrats Abroad, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. With America’s  two most populous states – California and Texas -- voting on Super Tuesday, it will account for about 40 percent of the US population. This year, for the first time, Nevada’s voting cards include Tagalog, along with  English and Spanish, acknowledgement  of the growing importance of the booming Filipino-American community  in Nevada.  Filipinos have become the state’s largest Asian-American community – estimated at 200,000 in a state of 3 million people. Filipinos have not been known to vote in large numbers in the past, but politicians have taken notice of this potential voting bloc.  So many politicians have been calling Filipino-American leaders. “They are paying attention to us  because they know now that we  vote,” said a Filipina campaign volunteer. Like Latinos, Filipinos in the US tend to vote Democrat. Republican  candidate Trump has  repeatedly spoken against immigrants, particularly  against bringing in their relatives into the country, so this may well be a factor in the voting of Asian-Americans in the coming election, another volunteer added. Filipinos are the second biggest  Asian-American group in the US today, below the Chinese, but above  the Indians,  Vietnamese,  Koreans, and Japanese.  They have long been acknowledged for their contributions to the economic and social life of the country. This is the first time voting cards in a primary  include Tagalog, although Filipinos, with their considerable knowledge and use of English, can take part quite easily in  elections anywhere in the country.