Delegates Of The Super Kind Sought After

The close race has the candidates eyeing "super delegates."  Chances are, before this year's election, you didn't know what super delegates were.  You might not have even heard the term "super delegate" or knew Oklahoma had 10 up for grabs

News On 6 reporter Steve Berg spoke with two who'll be casting Oklahoma's votes.

Millions of people have voted in the Democratic primary.  But only around 800 people might decide history.

Being a super delegate at times doesn't sound so super.           

"I don't relish the idea of casting my vote as a super delegate," said Jim Frasier.

"If it comes down to us, which I'm hoping of course that it doesn't," said Kalyn Free.

But at the same time say Frasier and Free say being a super delegate, the official term in "unpledged" delegate, is an honor.  And this year, because things are so close between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, it's being treated as such.

"They are, they are calling," said Frasier with a laugh.

"We're getting a lot of attention, a lot of love.  We've got candidates and campaign staff calling us frequently," said Free.

Of the 10 Oklahoma super delegates, so far one is for Obama, one is for Clinton.

Neither Frasier nor Free gives much hint how they're leaning.  Although Frasier dislikes the appearance that Clinton is pushing to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida that were disqualified because they held their primaries early.

"That might drive me to Obama.  I don't know.  I really am concerned about changing the rules now," said Frasier.

And of course it's hard to ignore that Clinton won big in Oklahoma's primary.

"Some folks say to me well how can you go against Hillary Clinton, you know didn't she win Oklahoma, but the other flipside of that is how can you go against Barack Obama who seems to be winning more states," said Free.

"It's a tight call.  I don't know which way I'll go," said Frasier.

Free thinks a clear leader will emerge before the convention.  But Frasier thinks it will stay deadlocked.

"I never thought it would happen.  And I didn't want it to happen," said Frasier.

Neither one of them has received a call from the actual candidates and they say they don't want to, in part because they say the candidates are busy and in part because they want to stay unbiased.

They say they get up to three calls a day from the campaigns.