Governor Phil Bredesen says the super delegates for the Democratic Party should have their own primary day to help break the deadlock in the democratic presidential nominating contest. He floated the idea in an op-ed piece in the New York Times today.
795 party leaders, governors and federal office holders will be delegates to the national convention in August, where the democratic nominee will be officially chosen.
But Bredesen says the party shouldn’t wait until August.
“If we go through three months of the candidates are fighting with each other and we’re not raising money for the fall election, you give the other side a free go at doing anything they want and saying anything they want through the course of the summer, I think we’re setting ourselves up for maybe a bad outcome when the time comes.”
Illinois Senator Barack Obama is in the lead with over 16-hundred delegates and New York Senator Hillary Clinton is close behind with almost 15-00 delegates. It takes just over 2-thousand to secure the nomination.
Bredesen spoke with Clinton yesterday and he’ll be talking with Obama this afternoon. He says also spoke with Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean today, who seemed receptive to the idea.
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