And you thought the Clinton-Obama horse race was already hot -- the candidates virtually tied for votes and delegates. Now the party is locked in a behind-the-scenes horse race for the votes of superdelegates.
Those are the 795 party elites -- free agents -- whose votes at the Democratic convention this summer will not necessarily be bound by the will of Democratic voters.
That's right. Talk of backroom deals and a brokered convention is real. So is talk of a Democratic train wreck as the party heads into November.
This hour, On Point: the Democrats' superdelegate dilemma.
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Gary Hart, former Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator from Colorado, now a professor at the University of Colorado and a supporter of Senator Barack Obama
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Elaine Kamarck, lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, former aide to President Bill Clinton, and a superdelegate supporting Senator Hillary Clinton
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Rep. Gwen Moore, Democratic congresswoman from Wisconsin and superdelegate supporting Barack Obama
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Matt Bai, writer for The New York Times Magazine and author of "The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics"
