Howard Dean is no longer a marginalized figure, the butt of "Dean scream" jokes, but a man with a powerful constituency in regions where his fifty-state strategy has energized aging, ailing or previously nonexistent state parties. His support to these parties has not only strengthened them but has created an independent power base for Dean himself.
Tradition dictates that whoever wins the White House will install his or her own regime in the DNC. Dean says that if a Democrat wins in November, he does not want to hang around the building past 2009. Yet few in the party believe it's possible, or preferable, to go back to targeting a dozen swing states every two or four years. "You cannot lurch from one election to the next with no game plan," Dean says. "I do believe the Democratic President is going to want a permanent political operation, and I think we're going to leave a very strong one here." Dean says the state party chairs have already persuaded Obama and Clinton to commit to funding the fifty-state strategy, which at a cost of $4 million to $5 million a year is a tiny fraction of the $300 million budgeted by the DNC for '08. "The one thing they should not get rid of is the fifty-state strategy," says Democratic strategist Donna Brazile. "We need to do more, not less."
Thoughts
Why Most Of USA is Hating?????
Submitted on November 5th, 2008 by AnonymousWhy is the USA is hating on Obama I think he is a great person for the seat . But most people say its not about race but why would you say "I don't think the USA is ready for a black Prez" It about color don't lie to yourself. He wants to bring our boys home and look at it this way the Republicans have took all the money and spent it. They promise all these thing but we did not get it all we are getting is war and a bunch of dead corpse from iraq so look at it on the good side that the demos. are only there to repair and make thing go back to normal look at the stock market .Think about all the people that are dying because no health insurance.ALL IM SAYING IS LOOK AT IT AS HELP YO YOU AND THE PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT. THINK ABOUT OUR COUNTRY AND DON"T BE SELFISH.
Geography is not demographics
Submitted on March 31st, 2008 by Chuck_JohnsonIf even more of Obama's positions on social issues, like guns and abortion become known he doesn't stand a chance. Sorry, but the white $20-an-hour union guy isn't going to vote for the Reverend Wright's disciple.
And we haven't even brought up the issue of judges.
McCain is a significant enough break with Bush for the Republicans to win this election. Heck, Minnesota might trend red this election. It's unlikely, but it's a possibility.
What people who say that the cities are all blue are forgetting is that a lot of people have left the cities and have since watered down their electoral power.
Chuck Johnson is a student at Claremont McKenna College. Feel free to contact him.
Should be a popular vote, then Red states would be Blue States.
Submitted on March 31st, 2008 by AnonymousIf you look at all the big cities, usually your most education population centers, most of them were blue during the 2004 election. If they weren't blue, they were purple. Red is more of a rural paradigm, which is taken advantage through the electoral vote process. If you switched to popular vote, you might see a lot of Red states go Blue in past elections.
With this election, some of these rural cities are going to go Blue anyway, because the job losses are leading them to look for new leadership.