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If you're a real political junkie, you're not just following our convention, you're following 'theirs' too. The 2008 Demcratic Convention Watch mentioned a new site solely dedicated to tracking the superdelegate issue-- MisterSuperDelegate.org. If you're trying to track it yourself, you may want to check it out.
On that note,Jim Geraghty at NRO thinks the Democratic nominee could come down to ten delegates.
After Puerto Rico’s Democrats vote on June 7, there will be extraordinary pressure on the remaining publicly undecided super-delegates to get off the fence and make their preferences known. The Democratic convention is not until the end of August, so there’s a potential for three more months of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slugging it out, running negative ads, airing opposition research, jabbing each other in speeches, and driving up each others’ unfavorable ratings.
There are several hundred super-delegates who have not publicly committed, and even when you win the support of a super-delegate, you don’t always get to keep it. Rep. John Lewis of Georgia announced at the end of last month that because his district overwhelmingly supported Obama, he will vote for the Illinois senator if it comes to a floor fight (which looks extremely likely).
Here are the ten, in order of influence:
1. Former VP Al Gore
2. Former President Jimmy Carter
3. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
4. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
5. Senator Joe Biden
6. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
7. Rep. Jim Clyburn
8. Senator Jim Webb
9. Assorted red-state Democrats facing reelection
10. Former Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile
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