That long-predicted flood of super-delegates has finally arrived. In our feature to the right you can see the link to Eric Kleefeld's running count of Obama's delegate total for today, pre-primaries. As of 5:36 PM on the East Coast, he's at a 19.5 delegate pick up for the day.

So just to be clear that makes it close to a mathematical certainty that by the end of this evening Barack Obama will have gone over the 2118 delegates necessary to clinch the Democratic nomination.