Concern that the Democratic Party is dividing, Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean recently spoke out again about this election. Dean reiterated his call two weeks ago to end the Democratic primary contest in June.

Dean is focusing on winning the general election, and in order to fulfill that goal, measures must be taken soon.

We really can’t have a divided convention,” Dean said. “If we do it’s going to be very hard to heal the party afterwards. So we’ll know who the nominee is and that’ll give us an extra 2 1/2 months to get our party together, heal the wounds of having a very closely divided race and take on Senator McCain.”

On Monday, he made clear that either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama have to drop out of the race to the White House in June after the primaries and before the convention.

He didn’t specify which candidate he wants to see drop out.

We want the voters to have their say,” Dean said. “That’s over on June 3.”

Dean said that both candidates will know it if it is “time for them to go”.

This is not about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama,” Dean said. “This is about our country. It’s about a better course for our country. We’ve got to move on and win the presidency.”

So far, Obama is in the lead with 1,714 pledged delegates to Clinton’s 1,589 delegates. Right now, it seems to be all about the math with nine primaries left.

500 of the 800 un-pledged delegates have already said who they are for,” Dean said. “The remaining 300 will do that by the end of June and we’ll know who our nominee is and that’s what we need to do.”

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