Today, as Pennsylvanians awake to their morning newspaper and cup of joe, voters in 14 states head to the polls during Super Tuesday.

At stake will be 1,357 pledged delegates — 33.8 percent of the nationwide total.

That’s more than one-third.

A bill recently was put forth calling on Pennsylvania legislators to push the state’s primary closer to Super Tuesday. At the time, we fully agreed and suggested the state proceed with the bill put forth by Sen. John Gordner, R-27th, to move the primary election to the third Thursday in March, instead of the fourth Thursday in April.

At the time — with a still large field of candidates — Pennsylvanians having a chance to vote earlier seemed like a good idea. Our votes cast, our voices would play a pivotal role in impacting and influencing primary elections that would follow.

But the field of candidates suddenly started shrinking following this past weekend. In a matter of mere days, the choice among Democratic candidates dropped by three.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer all dropped out of the race within 24 hours of one another following disappointing showings in Saturday’s South Carolina primary. And in just the past month, Andrew Yang, Deval Patrick and others left the race and narrowed the field.

All this candidate flight just days before Super Tuesday has many early voters scratching their heads and calling for a redo.

California, for example, has increasingly become an absentee-voting state, according to Sunday’s Los Angeles Times — with 67 percent of all votes in the 2018 primary being cast somewhere other than traditional polling sites.

At the time ballots were certified and mailed out, voters in the state with the nation’s largest delegate count had 20 Democrats from which to choose — 20. Since then, almost half suspended their bids for the nation’s top job, leaving many supporters who already mailed in their ballots frustrated and feeling as though they wasted their ballot.

While Super Tuesday is the day considered the strongest indicator of the likely eventual nominee, maybe being a bit later in the game isn’t such a bad thing — at least this time around.

Instead of being part of the wave that carries candidates into the rest of the elections following the early March primary, maybe Pennsylvania’s voters will find themselves more the ones putting a candidate in this crowded Democratic field over the top.