Delegate Counter Game

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/29/delegate.counter/index.html

This is an interactive graphic about the presidential primaries from CNN.com. Not only does it show the results for states that have already had their primaries - it also allows users to make predictions for the states that haven't had their primaries yet. Uers manipulate the sliders at the bottom to allocate delegates and then refer to the bars on the right to see how their predictions would affect the election as a whole. Although the graphic is generally pretty easy to use, some of the color-coding is a bit confusing. For example, on the Democrat map, Clinton is represented with light blue and Obama is represented with dark blue. When you adjust the sliders at the bottom to predict the outcome of a state, that state does change color - but it doesn't end up matching either of the colors that are already used to represent Obama and Clinton. There is also a small shaded area on each of the bars to the right, but it isn't labelled. I assumed it stood for superdelegates, but this part is unclear. I also don't know why there's an additional column of state abbreviations and color-coding to the right of the map.