Reid Suggests He, Pelosi, and Dean May Contact SDs

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Thursday April 24, 2008 · 2:56 PM PDT

2008/04/24 · 14:56

Reid said he would consider writing a joint letter with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demanding that superdelegates make their endorsements public.

"The three of us, we may write a joint letter [to superdelegates]," said Reid. "We might do individual letters. We are in contact with each other."

Reid's comments suggest that the party’s top three officials are contemplating a high-level intervention if the primary season concludes in June without a nominee and many superdelegates still undecided.

He also implies a big endorsement is in the works. Continued:

The Senate majority leader also hinted that another high-profile superdelegate could be making an endorsement in the coming days.

Reid said he met Wednesday with all of the Senate committee chairman, and that one chairman told him he was going to make an endorsement decision "soon."

When asked in the hallway if he was the committee chairman in question, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D-Del.) delivered an emphatic "no." Politico

In an update, Pelosi said she did not object to a letter by had no such plans.

"She is not opposed to the idea [of a letter] but does not have any plans to do so," said Daly. Like Dean and Reid, Pelosi has expressed her desire to see the nomination wrapped up before July. Politico

Are they ... are they aware that they haven't endorsed yet? Tacit endorsements are not endorsements! Calls for mutual mercy are not endorsements! Why can't the superdelegates pick a side like everyone else - sooner than later? Who's the high-profile endorsement, if not Biden?

I'm tempted to e-mail this to the supers, not that it'd help - and not that their contact information is all that public:

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At this point, I think both sides would concur. We need to know where we stand now, tomorrow, this month - not in a few months, with a precious few months after that left to campaign for the GE.

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