how come on the cnn site

[laruemtt]

they have clark at 13% and 30 delegates and edwards at 12% and 36 delegates??? how? anybody???

[mohc]

1. Thats not NH delegates

Neither Clark or Edwards will receive NH delegates, the numbers you are reading include Iowa and superdelegates.

[Mass_Liberal]

2. because the delegates they show

are total delegates, and Edwards is winning because of 2nd in Iowa. I think. Uh?

[eyesroll]

3. Superdelegates?

Not the delegates from IA or NH, but individuals of influence, who get their own vote at the convention, who have pledged their support to a certain candidate.

[cjbuchanan]

4. The delegate vote is total

Not just NH. These include super delegates.

[leyton]

5. Those are not NH delegates.

Neither will get NH delegates, unless one of them truly makes heavy, heavy, heavy gains during the remaining hours of the evening.

Those are total delegates - superdelegate endorsements (here, 30 for Clark, 18 for Edwards) and delegates from Iowa (0 for Clark, 18 for Edwards).

[bloom]

6. I thought Clark was getting less votes than Edwards

did that change?

[laruemtt]

7. i think clark's just barely up

right now on cnn

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. Go Clark Go!!!! He needs to come in third so that he can claim...

that he has some momentum.