Super Tuesday over.. Nothing really settled

Well the big Super Duper Tuesday "national primary" is over, and it is time to sort through what it all means.

On the Democratic Party side, it basically means we continue on, nothing is really settled. Right now with ballots still to be counted in a number of states Clinton has 825 delegates, and Obama has 732 delegates. Not siginificantly different a gap than there was before all the hoopla. The big difference between the two remains the significant number of Superdelegates and particularly the DNC that have aligned with Clinton. So the two candidates soldier on.. and on... and on... I am becoming even more convinced that the Democrats are going to come here to Denver with neither candidate having the required number of delegates to win the nomination on the first ballot. The one actor in all this that is still lurking on the sidelines is Edwards. His endorsement of either of the other two could very well swing the nomination.

On the Republican side McCain obviously has pulled out a considerable lead with 615 delegates, to Romney's 268, and Huckabee's 169. Huckabee seems to be pretty much functioning as a split candidate for the hard core conservatives that can not make themselves vote for McCain. With Romney and Huckabee splitting the conservative vote, McCain seems to be destined to get the nomination through a long plodding process with neither of the other two having many "big" opportunities to close the gap. If the three continue in the current splits, McCain will end up with the big prize in the end.

This is still far from over on a number of fronts, so should give us plenty of entertainment at least on the Dems side up to and through the convention. For a political junkie like myself, there hasn't been anything like this in a long long time :)