Governor Dean Calls On Super Delegates to Decide by July 1

by Charles Chamberlain, DFA Field Director [courtesy of Blog for America]

The title of this post says it all. The Chair of the Democratic Party is making it clear that he will NOT allow a floor convention fight.

From TPM: 

"There is no point in waiting," Dean said, adding that despite the newly-found superiority in Democratic organization over the Republicans, "that all doesn't make any difference if people are really disenchanted or demoralized by a convention that's really ugly and nasty."

There is more from USA TODAY:

 "Well I think the super delegates have already been weighing in. There's 800 of them and 450 have already said who they're for," Dean said, according to excerpts sent to us by CBS. "I'd like the other 350 to say who they're for at some point between now and the first of July so we don't have to take this into the convention," which comes at the end of August.

More from the article:

Also on the subject of cooling the fierce battle between the campaigns of Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton so that the party can focus on competing against Republican Sen. John McCain, Dean just said on CNN's American Morning that he wants the candidates and their aides to get on "the positive road."

"I don't think you tell presidential candidates what to do," Dean said. But voters, he suggested, are telling candidates that they want positive, issue-oriented competitions not negative attacks.

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