Major domos in the Democratic party nationally are moving quietly behind the scenes to bring the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama competition for the presidential nomination to a quicker close. Particularly with the nasty blows the candidates exchanged this last weekend in Pennsylvania, both in live campaign appearances and in television and radio ads, the honchos fear such a wide split once a nominee is named that the GOP's John McCain will be a shoe-in.
National Democratic chairman Howard Dean, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are talking behind the scenes, with their main strategy tied to getting all the the superdelegates to announce for Obama.
The fear a divisive national convention in Denver in August, much like the ones in Chicago in 1968, the George McGovern convention in 1972 and the Michael Dukakis convention in 1984 that leaves the party so devastated it cannot win in November.
Hillary Clinton is still widely thought to win tomorrow in Pennsylvania, though not by a wide enough margin to put her campaign firmly back on the map. Most observers still see Obama with a commanding lead in delegates that Hillary cannot overcome. They believe she can be a spoiler, but not victorious in her own right.
They fear all of Hillary's attacks on Obama coming back in John McCain commercials in the fall, and that the earlier the party can be united around one candidate, the better.
The real question is: is it already too late for Democratic unity?
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