Deadline idea to end Democrat battle

The Democratic presidential nominee ought to be decided by July 1 in order to avoid bitter in-fighting, the party's national committee chairman has said.

Howard Dean said he did not want the passionate rivalry between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to "degenerate into a big fight at the convention".

His deadline would allow all the states to finish voting in the primary season before about 800 so-called superdelegates decide the winner by July, well before the party's convention at the end of the following month.

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