Primary confusion

Can we all agree that this system is absurd?

From the BBC: US election - who's ahead?

(Answer: Obama, but not by much).

How close are the would-be US presidential candidates to securing their party's nomination?

Candidate	States won	Total delegates won
Barack Obama	Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington state, Wisconsin	1,351 delegates
Hillary Clinton	Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee	1,262 delegates

Delegate figures are AP projections, as of 1336 GMT Monday 18 February. They include pledged and unpledged delegates (superdelegates).

What is a superdelegate? Rhetorical question here, I don't really want to know. Just somebody win already and let's move on!