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Top Democratic Party leader concerned over brokered convention
By: Sridhar Krishnaswami
Washington, Feb 7 (PTI) With no clear winner after months of wooing voters, a top leader of the Democratic Party in the United States has expressed concern over the campaigns of White House hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that could possibly lead to a brokered convention and disunity in the party.
Howard Dean, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, expressed concern after the spirited showing of both Senators Obama and Clinton with the African American lawmaker from Illinois maintaining that he won not only a majority of the states on Super Tuesday but also the delegate count.
"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," Dean has said in a television interview to a New York channel.
"I think we will have a nominee sometime in the middle of March or April. But if we don't, then we're going to have to get the candidates together and make some kind ...