[USA Today]Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said today that he does not support staging a gathering of undecided super delegates to pick the party's presidential nominee, usa Today reports.
In a telephone interview, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee said he hopes the nearly 800 super delegates -- who may ultimately decide the tight Democratic contest -- will all make their choices known by July 1 to avert a showdown at the party's Aug. 25-28 national convention in Denver. He said is talking with party stalwarts about finding a way to do that, the paper said.
Dean told USA Today that there are 330 super delegates whose preferences are not yet known.
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 super delegates because it would look like 330 delegates are overriding the wishes of 30 million voters," Dean said. But he praises Bredesen for advancing the plan. "It's good that he'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 taking up their mind before the convention," he said.
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