How much better would we be feeling tonight if Dean was still DNC chair?

[kath]

Seems to me it was a MAJOR mistake to give him the boot.

[Avalux]

1. He was just on KO - looked fantastic!

I wish he was still DNC Chair - might have made a huge difference.

[polichick]

4. Saw that too and just sighed at the thought of where we'd be if Dean...

...had been part of the administration.

[Tesha]

2. It *WAS* a major mistake. That and the nomination of a non-fighter. (NT)

[muntrv]

3. I'd feel much better. The Dems. won the 06 and 08 elections under his watch.

[book_worm]

5. I doubt if he were DNC chair it would have made a great deal of difference

in this election. A number of people who will lose tomorrow will be blue dogs who were elected under Dean's fifty state strategy. People here tend to forget that Dean didn't just recruit liberal or progressive candidates but he understood that to compete in "red" states and districts that moderate or conservative dems needed to be included.

[Scruffy1]

12. Excellent Post

We won't miss the blue dogs-they are always anti-union, pro big business, anti civil liberty. Having said that -its important to be competitive in all fifty states in order to make the rethugs spread their resources. The states with the most people and the most power are still California and New York.

[Taverner]

6. Well, we'd be winning so....

Y'know...

[thunder rising]

7. I'm in on that! Tim "There's a better way." Kaine revives the old DLC 50%+1 that worked so well in

the past. Actually to say he had a plan (any plan) would be a compliment.

[polichick]

8. I so wish the prez would wake up and pay attention to what Dean is saying! nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

9. If U3 were still near 10%, and U6 near 18%...

...you'd feel the same way if Jesus Christ Himself were DNC chair.

I voted for him, and was a Dean delegate to state convention....

[madrchsod]

10. a lot better...

[ramapo]

11. Never understood it

Dean was the first chair in eons to work the entire country. Now we are back to selective engagement. I think my local race got about $10 from the DNC. Doesn't make sense.

[madokie]

13. to the msm it wouldn't matter

and its them who determines what we hear, see and read, for the most part

[snot]

14. A lot. Both bec. of what he'd have done, and bec. of what it would have meant about the party.

[kath]

15. kick - we'd all be a lot happier tonight.

Way to go, TIm Kaine.