“The 50 state strategy is now and forever what Democrats do.”
New DNC Chair gives props to Howard Dean.
There’s no question it’ll be hard to match Howard Dean’s record as chairman of this party. His 50-state strategy was simple and powerful. The Obama campaign adopted it and the results speak for themselves.
The basic point-and the principle I’ll carry with me as DNC Chair-is that everybody matters…
…You don’t have to be a big donor for your donation to matter.
…You don’t have to be an expert for your idea to matter.
…You don’t have to be a full-time campaign worker for your effort to matter.
I will be true to that strategy-every state, every community, every person matters.
Together, we’ll do some new things-because we can never rest on what worked yesterday. But we will never again as a party write off states or regions or people. – via MYDD
Kaine added a line that was not in the prepared remarks.
The 50 state strategy is now and forever what Democrats do.
Sounds good Tim, but as they say in creative writing workshops, “Show, don’t tell.”
There’s been a lot of rumors that the DNC is going to be more of the Obama reelection committee and that money would be spread to swing states and not 50 states. We’ll have to see what happens.
The party of the president is always treated as a reelection committee. However, I think the success of 2006 and the fact that Obama found an infrastructure in place for the 2008 campaign has had an impact. I don’t believe we will be seeing our party revert to the McAuliffe-failed-strategies of the past.
What we are likely to see is some fine tuning that will affect the amount of resources that are dedicated to states like Delaware, where the Democrats have a strong infrastructure in place and the state is solidly blue, at least for the time being.
As we know, these things do evolve and it may be that Delaware Dems will need to work a bit harder to keep the upper hand.
You Dems nailed it. A great recipe. But Pragmatist don’t worry about Delaware, it was an abberancy this year with Biden coming out, so candidate equity was leveraged. Your Colorado take is probably more to be examined–what switch, resources, etc., to bring that state along.