Now that the primaries are underway, votes and delegates matter more than polls. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would need to win 2,382 of Democrats' 4,763 delegates to the Philadelphia convention to clinch the nomination. To help you keep track of who's ahead, the Cook Political Report has devised a delegate scorecard estimating how many delegates Clinton and Sanders would need to win in each primary, caucus and convention to become the nominee. Two days after a whopping 74 percent win in South Carolina, Clinton is on the verge of putting the race away on Super Tuesday. She leads the pledged delegate count 91 to 65, and is at 134 percent of her Cook pledged delegate target, compared to just 74 percent for Sanders - a lead she is likely to stretch when larger states with higher nonwhite populations like Texas and Georgia vote tomorrow. But even that understates the magnitude of Sanders's challenge between now and June. Unlike on the Republican side, about 15 percent of DNC delegates are unpledged "superdelegates" - a total of

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