UNDER PRESSURE Howard Dean says that for the good of the party (and probably in part so he'll never have to deal with that pesky FL and MI issue), superdelegates should announce their candidates of choice already and end the democratic nominee race. “I need them to say who they’re for, starting now,” Dean told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. "[Democrats] cannot give up three months of campaigning and active healing time… We’ve got to know who our nominee is, and there’s no reason not to know after the last primary on June 3." [NYT]

As I mentioned briefly earlier today, Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, sent a letter to the DNC calling on officials to solve the problem of Michigan and Florida's delegates, which won't have a seat at the convention because Florida and Michigan election officials defied DNC rules by holding their primaries before Super Tuesday.

In a Feb. 8 letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, NAACP chairman Julian Bond expressed "great concern at the prospect that million of voters in Michigan and Florida could ultimately have their votes completely discounted." Refusing to seat the states' delegations could remind voters of the "sordid history of racially discriminatory primaries," he said.

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