New Yorkers marked Super Tuesday twice over this week, as primary voting coincided with the Giant's Superbowl victory parade. The Giants stars celebrated their upset win against the heavily favored New England Patriots with a tickertape parade down Broadway. Most voters at the event were more focused on Sunday's football win than Tuesday's primary contest.

"Nah, nah, I don't vote," one football fan said.

The Superbowl Showdown provided a perfect metaphor for pundits analyzing the Democratic primary faceoff between the odds on favorite, Hillary Clinton, and the scrappy road warrior, Barack Obama.

The Superbowl came down to the wire, the game clinched for the Giants by a last minute catch that put them on top by just three points.

But imagine if that narrow victory could be erased, by, say, super-receivers. Or super-quarterbacks. Imagine if NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell or Hall of Famer Joe Montana could give the beleaguered Patriots five extra points after the final whistle, and override the score on the field. Thus making the Patriots the Super Bowl champs.

The Democratic contenders are facing a similar scenario. Clinton and Obama are now nearly tied for delegates. Four thousand, forty nine delegates up for grabs, and a candidate needs at least half to secure the nomination. Most of the delegates get awarded based on people's votes.

But a full nineteen percent of the delegates choosing the Democratic nominee do not get chosen by the primary voters. They're the super delegates.

These seven hundred and ninety six party bigwigs can vote as they please, for any candidate. They're like the Democratic Party hall of famers. The superdelegates include all the Democratic members of Congress and governors, along with Democratic National Committee officials and a handful of other privileged party associates.

Many observers say this system benefits the candidate with longstanding party relationships, and favors to call in or hand out.

And for the Democratic party, its a pretty undemocratic system - a built in way to make an end run around the electorate's choice.

As of today, the super delegates backing Team Clinton far outnumber those backing Team Obama.

But these super delegates can change their superminds up until the convention, so keep your eye on the ball until August, when the delegates, super and otherwise, meet in Denver.