First it was Dennis Kucinich fantasizing about a brokered Democratic National Convention in Boston this summer. Now, it's columnist William Safire:

The chair has lost control of the floor and delegates are snaking through the aisles, shouting, "We Want Hillary!" All deals are off; we have the politicians' nightmare and the pundits' dream — an open convention!

You can follow the daily delegate count totals over at The Command Post. It takes 2,162 delegates voting for your nomination on the first ballot at the convention to win. If there's no winner on the first ballot, all the delegates are "released" to vote for whomever they'd like.

Right now, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Sen. John Kerry are neck-and-neck in delegate count. None of the other candidates seem ready to go away any time soon.

A brokered convention doesn't appear out of the question.