LATEST DELEGATE COUNT (from MSN)

[Deja Q]

TOP DEMOCRATS
2,025 delegates needed
Candidate Delegates*
Barack Obama 63
Hillary Clinton 48


TOP REPUBLICANS
1,191 delegates needed
Candidate Delegates*
John McCain 93
Mitt Romney 77
Mike Huckabee 58
Ron Paul 4

http://www.msn.com/?lc=1033

[toadzilla]

1. what happened to the delegates Edwards earned?

[liberal N proud]

2. That is what I want to know

They aren't telling the whole story AGAIN!

Why am I not surprised?

[toadzilla]

7. kick for an answer!

anyone?

[Coexist]

3. why are the Superdelegates showing as pledged here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/delegate_counts.html

Are most of them pledged already?

[AZ Criminal JD]

4. There are about 750 superdelegates so about 40-45%

have pledged to Clinton or Obama. Remember, since they aren't elected as delegates the pledge is just that. They are allowed to change their mind at any time. If they think one candidate will have a better chance in the general election they could change their pledge.

[Coexist]

6. I thought that, once pledged, they could't change it?

I am probably wrong.

[toadzilla]

8. I'm pretty sure they can change it right up until the end

[AZ Criminal JD]

9. They can change

The whole concept of the 'superdelegates' was to act as a brake on the primary process. If, in the great wisdom of the superdelegates the voters had selected someone who was unelectable in the general the supers could act as a bloc to defeat that candidate. So they can change right up to the last second.

[FreeState]

5. 2,025 needed 1,681 Dem delegates up for grabs today - there will be no winner tonight n/t