ALEX CHADWICK, host:
We're going to check in now with two superdelegates at the Democratic convention. These are party people who have some standing. This is why they are superdelegates. Eileen Macoll of Washington state. Eileen, hello again.
Ms. EILEEN MACOLL (Democratic Superdelegate, Washington): Hello, Alex. Good to talk to you.
CHADWICK: And Jennifer DeChant of Maine. Hi, Jennifer.
Ms. JENNINIFER DECHANT (Democratic Superdelegate, Maine): Hi, there.
CHADWICK: We've spoken with both of you before. You were undecided superdelegates very late in the process. Tell me, as superdelegates, as Democrats, I presume that you both are now committed to the man who will be the party's nominee, Senator Obama.
Ms. MACOLL: I will be casting my vote for Senator Obama in November, and I will be happy to do so.
CHADWICK: And Jennifer?
Ms. DECHANT: Oh, yeah, I absolutely look forward to casting my vote for Senator Obama, and, of course, that it's also done with the acknowledgment of all the effort and all the commitment and all the insight that the Hillary Clinton supporters have added to this process.
CHADWICK: What do you say to voters like Will Bower, who we just heard from, who are absolutely, at this point, the day after Senator Clinton has said, come on, let's go for Senator Obama, have said, we are not going?
Ms. MACOLL: We have a process, and we respect that process. If we don't have a process, we don't have democracy. The process is absolutely vital to what we do as Democrats.
Ms. DECHANT: And I would encourage them to really listen to what Hillary Clinton was saying last night and look for the bigger picture of what kind of critical decision this is for our country and really act on the greater whole. Everyone else will benefit from supporting Obama.
CHADWICK: You must be making that argument within the main delegation, Jennifer.
Ms. DECHANT: Yes.
CHADWICK: But I wonder - how is it going down? Because polls continue to show that significant numbers - significant numbers of Senator Clinton's supporters are not ready to go over to Senator Obama. And from Will Bower, we hear this sense that the process was unfair and therefore the outcome is corrupted.
Ms. DECHANT: Well, I think that - and we do have some folks that are really struggling with this. And what I have found is that people aren't as much - at least in my experience - aren't as much disturbed by the process, but more hurt by the loss of the result of the process and all of that nuance, you know, if people can catch that. But there's a difference in it, and I think people need to reconcile it however they do. Time is of the essence. I mean, it's great to reconcile, but it's not so great to do it on November 10th - is really to get on board or moving ahead.
It's important for the Democratic agenda for folks to come together, and I think the more often that the people who are struggling right now are resistant to that change or to that consolidation, I think we'll just have to let it resonate with them and really think about the bigger picture here.
And then, of course, let's just add that, then get involved, get involved if you think the process was so corrupt and so wrong. I mean, there's a variety of ways that this could have gone in different ways, and if you don't like the system, get involved to change it.
CHADWICK: Jennifer, when we last spoke you were an uncommitted delegate, but you said that earlier in the process, you'd been the only person in Maine driving around with a Joe Biden bumper sticker on your car?
Ms. DECHANT: Oh yeah, yeah.
CHADWICK: You must be happy about the vice-presidential choice?
Ms. DECHANT: I have to say, I'm over the moon. And I don't waste any time reminding people of how, you know, I was mocked and chided for that and how people weren't, you know, taking my Biden stickers. Well, now, they're all coming around.
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CHADWICK: Eileen Macoll, superdelegate at the Democratic Convention from Washington state, and Jennifer Dechant, superdelegate from Maine. Thank you both for being with us again on Day to Day.
Ms. DECHANT: Thank you, Alex.
Ms. MACOLL: Thank you.
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