“I've never been more popular in my life,” said the chair of Colorado’s Democratic Party at office headquarters on Friday morning.

Waak is publicly uncommitted and now inundated with phone calls, a few from Chelsea Clinton, and others from congresswomen who are Obama supporters. She even got together with a past president.

“When President Clinton was here I met with him and a small group of people,” she said.

In years past, the democratic presidential candidate was decided much sooner. But this year, with such a tight race between Senators Clinton and Obama, candidates – and the public -- are paying more attention to superdelegates. They’re a relatively small number of people who could decide who’s on this year’s ticket.

“A superdelegate is mainly an elected official of the democratic party,” said ColoradoCollege professor Bob Loevy.

Loevy says after the Democratic party changed its rules to get more women and minorities into the national convention, fewer elected elected officials attended. To accommodate them, they became special delegates informally called ‘superdelegates’ who are not already pledged to a candidate.

In Colorado, there are 15 superdelegates: 7 from the Democratic National Committee (Maria Handley, Debbi Marquez, Ramona Martinez, Jonathan Postal, Mannie Rodriguez, Dan Slater, Pat Waak), Senator Ken Salazar, Congresswoman Diana Degette, Congressman Ed Perlmutter, Congressman John Salazar, Congressman Mark Udall, Governor Bill Ritter, and former Governor Roy Romer. A final superdelegate will be decided at the state convention in the Springs in May.