In light of the failure of the phantom block of 50 superdelegates for Obama to materialize, I thought I would look at the actual recent superdelegates trend. I was surprised to see how strong Obama's momentum has been on the superdelegate contest. If the listing provided by this 2008 Democratic Convention Watch blog is accurate, Obama has picked up 35 superdelegates to Clinton's net 7 since February 22. That's a net gain of 28 delegates, including one switch from Clinton to Obama.
It will be interesting to see how the impact of Clinton's March 4 primary victories in the Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas (primary) plays out. The score based on announcements since March 4 is Obama 9 to Clinton 4, so Clinton did not get a helpful bounce there (although she did slow the bleeding a bit).
So what should we be paying attention to? The Math? The Delegates? The Momentum? Coattails? Whichever way you go it is looking good for Obama.
P.S. Notice how CNN implies that Obama lost delegates in Texas:
After losing Democratic contests in the delegate-rich states of Ohio and Texas this week, presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama won the Wyoming Democratic caucus Saturday.
It is strictly true that Obama "lost a contest" (the primary) in "delegate-rich" Texas, but I am sure a CNN reader finishing that sentence would be quite surprised to hear he won the caucus and picked up delegates overall in delegate-rich Texas. Sheesh.