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What We Can Learn From Howard Dean
The Next Right — The Nation has a profile on Howard Dean that's well worth reading. Money Graf: A few months later the state chairs asked Dean and the other contenders for DNC chair to give $200,000 a year to each state party. Dean enthusiastically embraced and enlarged the plan en route to easily winning the DNC race and gave every state the resources to hire at least three or four organizers and access to a high-tech database of voters, which became the twin cornerstones of the fifty-state strategy. Under Dean, battlegrounds like Ohio still took priority, ...

State and County Parties Need a Network Not a Website
The Next Right — Republicans have come down with Howard Dean Envy. A great summary of Dean revisionism from the left can be found at Ari Berman's piece in The Nation singing the praises of the outgoing DNC Chairman, who laid the groundwork for the Obama campaign with his 50 State Strategy. Cahnman blogging in this space picks up the theme. And numerous candidates for RNC Chairman have offered up their own version of the 50 State Strategy. I am going to dissent on this one. I've consciously avoided any references to a 50 State Strategy because I think a cookie-cutter ...