Senator Leahy calls for Clinton to drop out

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LAT: Sen. Leahy calls for Clinton to drop out
The Vermont senator, a prominent superdelegate, says that 'there is no way' Clinton can win enough delegates to take the Democratic presidential nomination from Barack Obama.
By Johanna Neuman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 28, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) today called on Hillary Rodham Clinton to drop out of the presidential race, saying there is no way the New York senator can wrest the nomination from her rival Barack Obama.

"There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination," Leahy, an Obama supporter, said in an interview with Vermont Public Radio this morning. "She ought to withdraw, and she ought to be backing Sen. Obama."

Leahy was the first prominent superdelegate to call on the New York senator to withdraw, but his comments came on the same day that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean urged superdelegates to make their preferences public.

"There's 800 of them, and 450 have already said who they're for," Dean said on CBS' "Early Show." "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."...

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-campaign29mar29,0,5837464.story