Super delegates to the ...rescue? ***

Look! Over there, at the Democratic Party National Convention. They can do anything! They can go anywhere! They're ... superdelegates! Lisa Friedman in the Daily News.

Democrats have 796 of them, and if the race for the White House remains as close as it is now between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, these "superdelegates" - elected officials and party members who can back any candidate - could decide the next nominee.

So while they may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, analysts note that superdelegates count for 20 percent of the vote at the Democratic National Convention - making their powers substantial.

***Obama wraps up successful weekend

Sen. Barack Obama had a highly successful weekend, winng three contests on Saturday and also was projected to win the Maine caucuses on Sunday.
Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton now face off in three contests on Tuesday in what is variously being called either the Chesapeake primaries or the Potomoc primaries in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.