A record-setting voter turnout is being anticipated, both nationally and from within the Muslim community.

"Each election cycle, America’s Muslims become better organized and more savvy about asserting our voice into our nation’s electoral dialogue," said Corey Saylor, national legislative director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). "This is a community that is excited about the contributions our strong family values and foreign policy insights can make to this nation."

In an effort to promote greater awareness and participation among Muslim American voters, national organizations like CAIR and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) have released information to guide voters on not only the presidential race, but the equally important and often overlooked local issues.

"As Muslim Americans, it is important that we support candidates who share our political views and, more importantly, will protect the interests of all people," said Salam Al-Marayati, executive eirector of MPAC.

MPAC continues to call upon the presidential candidates to publicly engage with Muslim American voters. Al-Marayati says the best way to gain recognition from candidates is to engage them on important issues and not provide them blanket endorsements based on their popularity.

"Every candidate who asks for money from Muslims should be able to publicly stand with Muslims and not shy away from doing so because of the current culture of fear, which has polarized our nation and disenfranchised many in the Muslim American community," he said.

More delegates can be won on Super Tuesday than on any other single day of the primary calendar, and, accordingly, candidates seeking the presidency traditionally must do well on this day to secure their party’s nomination.

Convincing wins in Super Tuesday primaries have usually propelled candidates to their party’s nomination. While the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary receive much press attention because they are first, they are sometimes criticized for being small states that are unrepresentative of the United States as a whole. Since Super Tuesday primaries are held in a large number of states from geographically and socially diverse regions of the country, Super Tuesday typically represents a presidential candidate’s first test of national electability.

In 1992, after losing earlier primaries, Democrat Bill Clinton emerged as a candidate "back from the dead" when he convincingly won a number of southern primaries on Super Tuesday.

Clinton ultimately went on to win the Democratic nomination and the presidency. In 1996, Republican Bob Dole’s Super Tuesday sweep sealed his bid for the Republican nomination. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush cemented their nomination bids with Super Tuesday victories, and both went on to win their parties’ nominations.

This year, 52 percent of all pledged Democratic Party delegates and 41 percent of the total Republican Party delegates are at stake on Super Tuesday.