****IT'S THE DELEGATES PEOPLE!!!****

[Kittycat]

It's about delegates, not states - let's keep that in mind. It's going to be a long night for all of us. How about we calm down on the "in your face" crap, and just be civil for a few hours until results become firm.

ETA: This goes for all sides.

[oviedodem]

1. Thank you! I really wish people would understand that. If O is within

25 to 50 it was a very very good night for Obama.

[MADem]

2. It's about delegates, states, AND the popular vote. It's about MOMENTUM.

It's not any ONE THING.

[Clintonite]

3. Good point.

[crispini]

4. Clinton 279, Obama 210

Indeed, indeed

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#val=D

[crispini]

5. Clinton 299, Obama 219

[avaistheone1]

6. Or is it really all about the Super Delegates?

They seem to have the power to overrule the people's vote which angers me to no end.

Why bother voting?

[crispini]

7. Mmm, total delegates: 2,025

Superdelegates: 299

That's 14% of the vote to the superdelegates. Not sure how they "have the power to overrule the people's vote" :shrug:

[avaistheone1]

8. I thought there were well over 700 super delegates.

[crispini]

9. I could be wrong, I'm looking here

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/scorecard/#val=D

[avaistheone1]

10. Voters don’t choose the 842 unpledged “super-delegates”

who comprise nearly 40 percent of the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18277678/



In my mind it is still dangerous that there are so many of the superdelegates, and that they could swing the vote away from how the people have voted.