How do these two party races look, literally?

Here's a nifty gizmo put together by The Times' web wizards that shows visually how close the race for delegates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination is between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. 

And how far Sen. John McCain is ahead of former Gov. Mike Huckabee on the Republican side. These visual images are automatically updated as new numbers come in. So, check back here often.

Also, move your cursor over the darker parts of a candidate's face to bring up state-by-state delegate totals already captured.

--Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[Jesse]

It is quite nifty, but it's still pushing this horse-race based on a count that no one can confirm. I still contend that we shouldn't even include any SuperDelegate predictions. I know the AP does, but it's really only hurting the race. We complain that they are going to sway the race in a negative direction, so why talk about them until we absolutely have to? We should acknowledge their existence, but not count their vote until convention time in August. Now that would be taking away their power.

In case you don't want to chose your democrat based on malleable delegate numbers, you can see how the voting records of the two candidates differ here: http://politicalmaelstrom.blogspot.com/2008/01/actual-differences-between-barack-and.html