fivethirtyeight.com - 1/22/2009
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I'm not sure that the discussion surrounding the Democrats' 50-state strategy couldn't stand to be a bit more sophisticated. A party's resources are finite, and those resources are always going to be allocated unequally between different states and different congressional districts depending on ...
dailykos.com - 1/21/2009
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dailykos.com —
Bowers : In short, the DNC will be
moving away from the long-term, decentralized, fifty-state strategy of...
Howard Dean's tenure, and toward serving as a short-term, centralized re-election effort for President Obama in 2012. It will continue ...
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RIP 50-state strategy
openleft.com - 1/21/2009
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openleft.com —
Another story we have been following on Open
Left is the fate of the fifty-state strategy now...
that Howard Dean will no longer be DNC Chair. During the festivities here in D.C., I ran into a source close to the transition at the DNC who was able to ...
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DNC, 50 State Strategy Update
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 1/22/2009
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
WASHINGTON (CNN) – After a four-year term that
saw Democrats take control of the White House and...
both chambers of Congress, Howard Dean bid farewell to the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday, but not without offering a hearty endorsement ...
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Dean says goodbye as Kaine takes over DNC
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1/22: Caroline Bows Out
Blogometer —
... the DNC into Obama's 2012 reelection effort is that there's no reason for the Obama operation to have staffers in Utah. But there's a reason for the Democratic Party to have staffers in Utah -- helping Democrats get elected to important local- and state-level offices and building a bench for federal offices. If Obama's DNC wants to staff up in battleground states, then great. But the rest of the states shouldn't be discarded. We've been down that road before, and it wasn't pretty." FiveThirtyEight 's Nate Silver offers his thoughts: "One can imagine a lot of scenarios in ...
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