Delegate count

Beneath the hype of who's won Iowa, and momentum and everything else, is the actual number of delegates. If you listen to the MSM, Edwards is all but gone. If you look at the number of delegates, not so much.

(Note: The Democratic Party has "Superdelegates" which is impossible to explain. Superdelegates include every Democratic member of Congress, some other elected Democratic officials and members of the Democratic National Convention. HRC has a bunch of superdelegates already. HRC has a bunch of members of the DNC endorsing her, as well as former Vice President Walter Mondale. So there's always that).

The current delegate count:

Hillary- 187
Barack- 89
John- 50

The magic number for winning the nomination is 2,025. If a single candidate does not win 2,025, that means they have to make a deal. For example, John Edwards could give Barack his delegates in return for the Vice Presidency. Or they could just let whoever wins the most delegates win the nomination, even if they didn't get a simple majority.

A few things to remember:

1. Superdelegates make up about 20% of the total delegates in the Democratic Party.
2. John Edwards, even though he hasn't won a primary, is only 39 delegates behind Barack, who was being anointed last week.
3. We choose our Presidential candidates based on things like "superdelegates" and "caucuses" and "cage death matches". Our country may in fact be retarded.