Letters to the Editor
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This is an excellent argument for Gov. Dean's timeline...
Personally, I don't see why the supers need until July 1st, because even the May/June primary schedule (after the 6th) are a pretty thin lot. But if they'd like that much time to be courted, fine. If they'd like that much time to honestly make up their minds, fine. But no more. They'll have had 6 months since the Iowa Caucuses at that point, which is more than enough time even if you didn't realize this choice would be up to you until after Super Duper Mega Tsunami Powerball Tuesday. Hell, by that point, they'll have had almost 4 months since Texas and Ohio, and more than 2 months since Pennsylvania.
If they can't make up their mind or cut a deal by then, well, then, they really no longer have the best interest of the party at heart.
And to those who will inevitably say "relax, we used to have conventions that matter all the time," I would submit that those conventions tended to be in June or July, not the last week of August. The thing about this season, thanks to a) the rush to get this thing "over with" (and thus the creation of the aforementioned Large Tuesday, with the attendant leapfrogging by Iowa and New Hampshire) and b) the desire to both try to go last and not get ignored in favor of the Olympics, means that this "no man's land" from the time of the last few primaries until the convention is longer than most in memory while, perhaps ironically, the contest of the primaries seems like the longest ever as well. Can you imagine how boring this all would have been had Clinton won Iowa and NH, or if Obama had swept Super Tuesday?
Still, July 1st, Supers, that's the law. Fine if we let McPets.com get to then with his share price, but the bubble needs to pop before the dog days.