Howard Dean Says No To Idea of Superdelegate Primary
Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean today threw cold water on the idea of a primary for superdelegates as a way to wrap up the race for the party's presidential nomination.
USAToday reports that Dean "does not a support a plan advanced by Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen for a two-day meeting of super delegates in June to pick either Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama -- assuming the contenders are still nearly tied in "pledged" delegate numbers -- as the party's standard-bearer."
"We can't have a convention of superdelegates because it would look like 330 delegates are overriding the wishes of 30 million voters," Dean said. "It's good that [Bredesen's] talking about it because it focuses the attention of the unpledged delegates on the need to put their country and their party first by making up their mind before the convention," he said.
Dean says that he hopes the nearly 800 superdelegates will make their views known by July 1 in order to avoid a possible disastrous (for the Democrats) show down at the party's convention in Denver Aug. 25-28.
5:10 PM ET | 04- 1-2008 | permalink
