DNC Chair Howard Dean, who started the push to take back the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party, told superdelegates to make up their minds already and pick either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama. Pennsylvania will be voting in four days and then there are only a few left after that. Although letting the voters vote in all 50 states sounds like a healthy idea, the fact remains that unless Clinton blows Obama out by 9-1 margins in all of these states, she will not be able to catch up to Senator from Illinois.
From CNN:
(CNN)— An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they’re for – and “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.”
“We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time,” the Democratic National Committee Chairman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We’ve got to know who our nominee is.”
After facing criticism for a mostly hands-off leadership style during much of the primary season, Dean has been steadily raising the rhetorical pressure on superdelegates. He said Thursday that roughly 65 percent of them have made their preference plain, but that more than 300 have yet to make up their minds.
Adding those three hundred or more supers to the mix, especially after the huge allotment from Pennsylvania is handed out makes it extremely likely we will see a candidate with more than 2,025 delegates. Then, there will be no more arguments for Hillary Clinton to make. Then we can start to unify and heal the party so we can crush John "McSame" McCain come November.
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