There's a problem here. You don't have the candidates names on any of the numbers. Guessing from the numbers, You have Kerry at 736? Where did that come from? The CNN numbers show that Kerry's 608 was both regular and super delegates combined.

Love the blog, but a calculation based on anything except Pledged votes in hand is going to be suspect to the nth degree: by my calculations, Kerry's backslid since this all began. CNN is including Super-D's, which could go away in a heartbeat: I really do think that tthis site gives a better idea of the situation.

Eric: Crud! When I fixed the error I accidentally cut off the names. Will fix.

And Moe: that's why I did the numbers for both.

So you did. My bad.

Still don't think that Kerry can stop sweating yet, though.

Actually, on second thought I don't see. The CNN number of 608 for Kerry represents his total delegates (added them all up, and the final number includes delegates from states that haven't had primaries yet, so clearly CNN added them all together); the pledged (ie, won through primaries) ones would be 608 - 128, or 480*, and the unpledged ones (which are what you're calling SuperDel) would be the 128 number. The total (pledged + unpledged) shouldn't be 608 + 128, in other words.

OK, OK, I'll shut up now, obsessive that I am. :)

Moe

*Which is still off, but media coverage of the primaries frankly sucks anyway. The AP never has a clue about how many delegates are at stake for any given state...

You may be correct. I may have mis-read the CNN chart. I will double check after class.