DNC Wants to Avoid Convention Fight

Democracy is icky:

As predictions of a convention floor fight from the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to mount, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said the party would likely intervene to prevent that scenario.

Dean said Democrats would look to “get the candidates together to make some kind of an arrangement” before the party meets in Denver this August to officially select its nominee. In an interview on NY1 on Tuesday, before the outcome of the day’s votes was known, Dean said he thought the Democratic Party would have a nominee by mid-March or April. "The idea that we can afford to have a big fight at the convention and then win the race in the next eight weeks, I think, is not a good scenario,” he said.

If there is no nominee selected by his predicted mid-spring date, or by Puerto Rico's June vote – the last presidential primary on the Democratic calendar – Dean said the party would likely bring both sides together to work out a deal.

"Because I don't think we can afford to have a brokered convention," he said. "That would not be good news for either party."

Of course, an intervention by the DNC will not be good news for the party that gets screwed out of the nomination, either. Now, we all know that no matter who that is, they will want to fight it—but, if we're all honest, we also know that if Obama fights it, it will be (quite rightly, btw) seen as fair and just and who the fuck do the DNC think they are, anyway?, but if Hillary fights it, it will be seen as sour grapes and indicative of her sense of entitlement and doesn't she care about the good of the party?

Don't think for a second the DNC doesn't know that, either.

I'm not suggesting the DNC has a favorite candidate; I'm just saying they know that one comes with a massive PR headache in the eventuality of their intercession to broker a deal between Obama and Clinton, and it will unavoidably influence their decision. That's a problem.