Senate Majority Leader Reid Endorses July 1st Ultimatum For Super-Delegates

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Reid Endorses July 1 Ultimatum For Super-Delegates

By Eric Kleefeld - April 1, 2008, 4:36PM

Howard Dean's call for super-delegates to declare their preferences by July 1 has just gotten a very high-profile endorsement: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

"I like that — July 1 or before," Reid told Roll Call. When asked what he would do to encourage the plan, Reid answered simply: "I just did it."

Reid told the Las Vegas Review-Journal last week that he'd been talking to Dean about how to avoid a bloody convention fight — begging the question as to whether he'd already agreed with Dean in private that this would be a good way to go.

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1. We don't need all the SD votes. Just a hundred or so to get Obama to 2,025.

The rest can go on vacation.

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2. It doesn't seem like too much to ask.