on the psyche if a favored candidate doesn't make it to the end. Locally, I'm in the same situation in a blood-red district in Georgia.

Fwiw, I find reading about the candidates themselves, digging deep in the web for old nuggets of info and insights, who they are as people, their records and their ideologies, is very useful for ranking, or just plain weeding in some cases. I notice you lump Sanders and Warren together because of issues probably, but I think you'll find they are so very different as people and ideologically that you'll end up favoring one over the other.