NYT BREAKING NEWS: Pelosi and Reid - Pressing delegates to make choice public by MID-NEXT WEEK

Per Abrams on MSNBC's The Verdict just now.

New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/us/politics/30dems.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Leaders in Congress Seek to Settle Soon on Nominee

By CARL HULSE
Published: May 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — Hoping to bring their party’s presidential nomination fight to an end, the two top Democrats in Congress said they were pressing superdelegates who had yet to declare a preference in the race to make their choice public by the middle of next week.

Party officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, had been contacting uncommitted superdelegates, encouraging them to prepare to go public and resolve any last question about the contest between Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

“By this time next week, it will all be over, give or take a day," Mr. Reid said in a Thursday appearance at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, where he was promoting a new memoir.

Given Mr. Obama’s lead in the delegate race and potential support among the approximately 200 members of Congress and Democratic insiders who have yet to declare, the push to wind up the race works to his benefit. While Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid have remained publicly neutral in the nominating clash while emphasizing its potential benefits to the party, they now appear to have concluded that prolonging it much further could be detrimental.

In an interview on the San Francisco talk radio station KGO, Mr. Reid said that he had spoken with Ms. Pelosi on Thursday and that they had agreed to take steps to avoid a contest that would extend into the convention in August. “We all are going to urge our folks next week to make a decision very quickly,” said Mr. Reid, who added that “simple math” indicated that by next Tuesday Mr. Obama would have the necessary number of delegates to prevail.

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/democratic-leaders-lean-on-superdelegates/
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WASHINGTON - Hoping to bring the Democratic presidential nomination fight to an end, party leaders are intensifying their efforts to encourage remaining uncommitted superdelegates to make their choice public by the middle of next week.

In an interview Thursday on a San Francisco talk radio station, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said he had spoken with Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier in the day, and they had agreed to take steps to avoid a contest that extends into the convention in August.
AudioSenator Harry Reid on KGO Senator Reid discusses the Democratic primary. Full interview via KGO.

“We all are going to urge our folks next week to make a decision very quickly,” said Mr. Reid, on station KGO. He said he had also spoken with party chairman Howard Dean on Wednesday night.
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Goodbye Hillary

will have to wait and see how everyone else votes first, or join a gang, take a nappy poo - wake me up when it's over Salazar.

I read somewhere that since the convention will take place in Colorado, the local superdelegates will try to stay impartial.

there will be no stealing at the convention. hill please step down with dignity and don't turn the entire party against you.

Now, it seems, they are pushing to end it.

"One war at a time is about all we can comfortably manage."

Why can't they???

The arrogance of sitting out with their SuperD secret. We gotta move on!

Let her have her final primary and then apply the tourniquet before we bleed to death.