Hard to keep track of superdelegate roster

WASHINGTON, March 13 (UPI) -- While Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama vie for support from the party's "superdelegates," it's hard to tell in several cases just who they are.

Getting an exact count on those elected officials and party insiders who may decide the Democratic nomination could be a certain uncertainty all the way up to the national convention, USA Today says.

Vacancies, deaths, elections, change of address, all can alter the lineup. Take New York, for example, which will lose one. Outgoing Gov. Eliot Spitzer and successor David Paterson are both superdelegates but when Spitzer leaves office Monday the state will be short and likely will not replace it.

Kenneth Curtis, a former two-term Maine governor, lives in Florida now and should be a superdelegate but the DNC stripped Florida of its delegates for changing its primary date.

Two special elections this week further jumbled the count.

Democratic strategist Peter Fenn likens the ever-shifting count to a "floating crap game."

And, so it goes. As of now, there are 796 super delegates. That will change on Monday by subtracting New York's one. How much after that is anybody's guess.