Dear Editor:
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told the New York Times last Thursday that he thinks the Democratic Party "will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April," but if a firm result isn't achieved by then, "we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind of an arrangement" in order to prevent a fight for the nomination at the Convention in late August.
Contributing DailyKos editor DHinMI, however, argued Friday that owing to the vagaries of unpledged (or "super") delegate allocation, and the near equality of Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) electoral wins, "there is no way the nomination will be settled before the convention, regardless of what happens from here on out."
So, what kind of "arrangement" offered by Dean could both Clinton and Obama possibly agree to?
A joint ticket, maybe, though that would pose the deal-breaking question of who'd take the top spot.
Or perhaps they could agree to nominate someone else, with the caveat that that person must choose one of them as Vice President. But who could those two Senators, and the party at large, possibly rally behind?
I nominate Former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Al Gore.
Matthew DiamanteClass of 2009
