Do you think DNC fundraising will improve under chairman Dean?

[ps1074]

I think DNC will raise more money than RNC by something like 1,5:1 ratio.

What do you think?

[aquart]

1. I'd rather hear about the win ratio improving.

[davidinalameda]

2. yes

Dean knows how to work the internet and can get donations that way

but he has to be able to work the grassroots as well to get the bodies that go along with the bucks

[Capn Sunshine]

4. It's still an uphill battle

we are SO FAR BEHIND the Republicans in organization and GOTV efforts.Probably ten years at least.

[dryan]

5. Ditto...and

double ditto.

[Abe Linkman]

3. With all of his corporate connections, they certainly SHOULD.

Hitting-up corporate donors for more Jack:
Would that be a blessing? Or, a curse?

[Capn Sunshine]

7. Do you have a list

of corporate connection Howard Dean has?
I know the DNC has one
But Howard Dean ?
None that I am aware of
Please enlighten me with a couple of names.

[TlalocW]

6. Yes but only if

The DNC sends out auto-phone messages that have him doing that scream and then threaten to call the person on the other end every day and scream again if they don't donate. :)

TlalocW

[LoZoccolo]

8. I think it might be erratic.

If Dean stands by some moderate position that a lot of Democrats are taking, his fundraising base might withhold funds in protest. It may be hard to guage how many people will withhold what for whatever reasons. That's the kind of situation we might find ourselves in if we rely too much on people who threaten to destroy the Democratic Party if they don't get their way on certain issues (part of Dean's support), and is similiar to some of the reasons that the DLC was formed.

[RetroLounge]

9. The first time Dean and the DNC put up the bat

my checks will be in the mail.

Now we need to do something with that money. GOTV, etc.

RL

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Agree, and I think there will be more attention to the local and state

races, and not just on the Presidential races, so we will win more.
The job of the head of the DNC is not just to raise the money but to determine the priorities of where the money and the attention goes. There were many local races in November where Republican candidates had no Democratic challenger at all. Hopefully Dean will not let this happen in 2006. I think no one will be able to rally the grassroots like he can. I don't mean just with the money, but the people..to get them up off their asses and to get them involved in actually running for offices and getting into the government.

[Pepperbelly]

11. the fund raising has been fine ... nt

[ps1074]

12. I was thinking of all the Deaniacs in Dean's database

What if every one of them pledges 10$ a month to DNC because they love hte chairman :) ? That makes $100 million a year...

[BlueInRed]

13. It's going to be interesting, I saw articles yesterday

predicting doom and gloom. I assumed they were just anti-Dean propaganda, but the articles were talking about the big money honchos threatening to close their wallets as long as Dean was chair. Not surprising really when you consider what some were probably expecting for their money.

I think individual donations will go way up and we'll lose some big money donors, while gaining others. I don't know how campaign finance reform works, but I thought the big donors were now limited from giving to the DNC anyway.

[NYCGirl]

15. You mean like this article from Novak?

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak31.html

[BlueInRed]

16. That's pretty much what I read, but it was a different article

probably the Republican echo chamber trying to scare Dems again.

[truebrit71]

14. I know it will from me....I have had enough of the "corporate Dems"..

..at the helm these past few years...