Because the Democratic primary race looks likely to go to the convention, and that the Democratic Party super delegates may swing the nomination one way or another, there's been a lot of interest in the last few days about who exactly these super delegates are. My friend and fellow netroots junkie, Rick Klau, announced SuperDelegates.org today:
In an attempt to shed some light on this process, I built a site over the weekend – SuperDelegates.org. Starting with a terrific list provided by the guys who maintain DemConWatch, I started filling in a little info about the super delegates and linking to their endorsement (if given). After finding a great extension to MediaWiki (KMLExport, in case you’re interested), I was also able to add in geo coordinates (latitude and longitude) to the delegate pages, so that you can see the delegates in a Google Earth layer.
The data is far from complete, but that’s by design: this is a wiki, and the site will succeed only if others decide to contribute to it. It takes just a couple minutes to do some quick searches on Google to find basic info about the delegates, and entering in the basic info on a delegate is simple:
{{Endorsed Barack Obama|Latitude|Longitude}}
I'm helping Rick with this, but with the California primary coming up, I'm quite busy for the next few days helping out my candidate, Barack Obama (Super Duper Tuesday primary election is this coming Feb 5th!). However, if you'd like to help with SuperDelegates.org, please contact me and I'll get you started.
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