openleft.com - 1/17/2009
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Newly appointed DNC Chair Tim Kaine has released a video where he responds to about a dozen questions submitted by citizens. Credit where due: not one but two of the selected questions concern the 50-state strategy advocated and pursued by Former DNC Chair Howard Dean. Those questions come at ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/10/2009
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This is no Friday joke. Word has just
been received at The Ticket that President-elect Barack Obama
sent out an actual e-mail today without asking for more money from tired donors. No, really. The N.Y. Times' Katharine Seelye recently ...
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Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with NO plea for ...
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
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Brilliant at Breakfast —
Because Barack Obama's hand-picked DNC chair can't cope with the success of the 50-state strategy....so he's decided to scale it back: He says the 50-state strategy was "really important." Good. He says "Its success speaks for itself." Yes. But in both answers he says they won't being doing exactly what they did during the last 4 years. Kaine: "You never should just do what you did yesterday" and "We may do it in different ways." More specifically, Virginia is not, say, Idaho and therefore: "I won't say it should apply equally in every state." But we will ...
Not trying to rain on our parade, but something to think about
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... , and Tim Kaine is alluding to some sort of return to the Emanuel doctrine of "Can't Win, Don't Try" where red states are concerned (because the Emanuel doctrine worked so well for us in the past, right? See also: Tammy Duckworth, who is NOT in Congress despite being Rahmmy's "sure win" candidate in 2006). ...
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