Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sees eye to eye, to an extent, with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on how to resolve the debate over Democratic superdelegates.

Dean said Friday that he wants all superdelegates to make and declare their choices for presidential nominee by July 1 in an effort to prevent the Democratic presidential race from continuing to the convention in August.

"Sen. Reid agrees that superdelegates who have already made up their minds should declare their support by July 1," Reid spokesman Jim Manley told FOX News on Tuesday, but Reid has stopped short of calling for undecided superdelegates to make up their minds by then.

Superdelegates -- party officials and insiders not bound to either candidate -- have a rare opportunity this year to tilt the outcome of the Democratic primary election, because neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton can win enough pledged delegates in the remaining contests to lock down the nomination.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" that aired Tuesday, said the nominating process "has to run its course," but she still stressed that the party needs to pick a nominee well before August.

Pelosi also seemed to qualify her earlier call for superdelegates to be guided by the vote of pledged delegates.

"These superdelegates have the right to vote their conscience and who they think would be the better president, or who can win, but they also then should get involved in the campaigns and make their power known there," Pelosi said.

Obama leads Clinton in pledged delegates earned in primaries and caucuses, 1,406 to 1,249. Clinton leads Obama in endorsements from superdelegates, 250 to 218. It takes 2,024 delegates to win the nomination.

FOX News' Trish Turner and The Associated Press contributed to this report.