Ah, now the real counts start coming in. Obama up by 7 delegates so far and climbing

[berni_mccoy]

CNN has updated their delegate counts. Clinton is going down and Obama is on the rise.

Current count:

Obama: 709 (603 earned delegates, 106 super)
Clinton: 783 (590 earned delegates, 193 super)

This clearly shows that Obama is winning the election so far and has earned more delegates through the primary election than Clinton has. Given that he's won more states, and she's the "incumbent", I'd call him the leader at this point.

[Nimrod2005]

1. Super delegates can and WILL flip to Obama...nt

[Sulawesi]

3. Only if he first shows he is going to be the winner...they won't switch unless things are clear.

[mmonk]

8. In this election, super delegates best not determine outcome.

It will be the death knell to the party. So whomever wins, they best better go with the vote.

[mtnester]

2. He gained a net four...4...delgates since this morning

when it was Obamam 646 and Clinton 724

[joshcryer]

4. It'll be back and forth all day, Hillary will get a few more CA delegates later on today.

It's going to be interesting to see the final count, but as the pundits are playing it, it's a "virtual tie."

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. Florida is not in these toatals of course

And maybe they never will be and it can be argued that they never should be, but that was an election also with about 1.5 actual million votes cast, which Clinton won easily. Under typical circumstances Clinton would have picked up a lot of earned delegates there, so in a way that im ny mind offsets the "unearned aspect" of some of her current super delegate lead.

[Sock Puppet]

7. Michigan too.

[TexasObserver]

6. only earned delegates matter

super delegates are wists of smoke, at best

They will choose whoever best protects their state ticket.

[displacedtexan]

9. Your OP subject headline confused me.

I thought you were reporting that Obama had surpassed Clinton's delegate count.

[golddigger]

10. There is still the CA delegate total that hasn't been reported yet.

[Texas_Kat]

11. CLinton won Alabama delegate count

With 99% of the precincts reporting, Clinton wins 21 delegates and Obama 20. After all the crap Obama supporters wrote about Nevada, you'll have to acknowledge she actually won Alabama.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#AL