Wow, this fifty state platform isn't working out very well for Howard Dean and the DNC

[tavalon]

Oh, wait. Nevermind.

[RagAss]

1. BaZinga !

[tavalon]

5. Hello, fellow The Big Bang Theory watcher!

[RagAss]

15. Hey...

;-)

[Jamastiene]

44. I agree, Dr. Cooper.

BaZinga!

[tavalon]

46. That's Dr. Tavalon

I kid. I'm a huge Big Bang fan.

I'm not exactly sure how I'm still kidding. I think it's kid or kill. My fellow American's are really stupid. Fear and low information makes for stupid voters.

[Kurovski]

2. !

:D

[blondeatlast]

3. Heh!

:thumbsup: from a 51st stater!

[tavalon]

48. 51st stater? I'm confused.

[readmoreoften]

4. DLC conservative anti-populists squandered everything.

[davidinalameda]

8. you mean like Obama?

[readmoreoften]

21. I'm not naming names. It's the damn majority of the Party at this point anyhow.

[nashville_brook]

28. yep.

[Celtic Raven]

58. +1

And blaming it on Progressives, LGBTQI, unions, and anyone else they can point a finger at for this mess.

[flying rabbit]

6. Snap!

[tavalon]

22. When I'm right, I'm right, though usually that's only on the odd Tuesday

And this is a really odd, fucking Tuesday.

[Davis_X_Machina]

7. As is widely known...

the DNC chair can move U3 from nearly 10% to, oh, say, 6-7%, just by dint of his sheer coolness.

[tavalon]

9. Just who is our DNC chair, BTW?

(ps - I'm a wonk like you guys. I know but I also know that he isn't doing a good job)

[MadMaddie]

10. Bingo! Kain has to go!

He's already talking about working with the Republicans...

[deutsey]

18. Really?

:banghead:

[tavalon]

53. Really, really

[tavalon]

50. I think he spells his name Kaine, but I'm not really sure

That's a little concerning, don't you think. I always knew how Howard Dean spelled his name and what our platform and plan was when he was leading.

[deutsey]

11. Yeah, what a losing strategy

:evilfrown: :sarcasm:

[tavalon]

35. Kudos on spelling "losing" correctly!

Not many do, you know? It's one of the most frequently misspelled words, like ever!

[Kurovski]

37. It's Hugh today.

[VMI Dem]

12. Yeah. Thank goodness for Tim Kaine.

[tavalon]

17. Tim who?

What was the strategy, BTW?

[VMI Dem]

23. Go on the teevee and say he expects to hold both houses?

[tavalon]

31. Well, actually, that's part of his job

It appears to be the only part of his job he didn't phone in.

[girl gone mad]

49. As best as I could figure..

<=====

[tavalon]

51. ..

[Kolesar]

13. Ohio still has a very big Dem machine

Offices were staffed way before they were staffed ten years ago.

We are losing half of our congressional seats at the moment. From 10 to 5. All but five seats in Ohio are gerrymandered for gop advantage.

[tavalon]

38. That wasn't my point but that is another point

[myrna minx]

14. ha!

:toast:

[tavalon]

36. Thanks! I'll be here all week.......yadda yadda

[jmondine]

16. Bring. Back. Dean.

'nuff said.

[tavalon]

26. Amen, Mr. Mondine

I married you for your looks, but you're pretty smart, too.

[jmondine]

55. Smart enough to drink water

After all the rum I've imbibed.
hic!

[EmeraldCityGrl]

19. Obama, take note!

[tavalon]

33. I'm worried his notepad is going to say:

"America wants me to move further right and be really fiscally tight. I guess they want that Depression."

[readmoreoften]

20. Why try to GOTV in all 50 states when you can back moderate Republicans

and lose. If you do that, you can move the Party even further to the right and get MAD CORPORATE CASH.

[leftstreet]

24. and blame the Republicans!

It's a win win!!1111

:grr:

[csziggy]

45. No, 'they' will blame the "professional left"

And accuse liberals of losing this election for the Democrats because we did not turn out in the numbers we did in 2008.

[tavalon]

47. Well, we did, actually, so either the idiots turned out in bigger numbers

or black box voting in combination with Citizen's United has taken us down. Either way, I'm picking myself up tomorrow and I'm going to make life miserable for every teabagging fool who thought he or she might want to find out what's so damn hard 'bout this here governin'!

[tavalon]

25. This will be my only serious comment on this thread. Citizen's United is unconstitutional

and it is going to destroy this 250 year old experiment.

[kath]

40. MAD CORPORATE CASH - that's what it all comes down to.

we are screwn.

[tavalon]

41. Unless and until Citizen's United is buried, we are buried, as in dead

[tavalon]

43. Worked well tonight, eh?

[nashville_brook]

27. ouch! so true.

[tavalon]

32. Snark and Tanqueray

It's how I'm getting through the night..................

[tavalon]

52. Barely

Fuck!

[tavalon]

54. Okay, I've quit with the Tanqueray. I'm getting a killer headache.

[notesdev]

29. Hey, we got Del-1, that's what counts

Grats to John Carney, the only Democrat to win a GOP seat this election cycle?

[madrchsod]

30. ya...great job rahm and the rest of the losers

[tavalon]

34. Now, now, we can't blame Rahm for everything!

Just, almost everything.

[fishwax]

39. it's a striking contrast to '06, for sure

:argh:

[tavalon]

42. Heck of a job, Timmy!

Might want to talk to that other former Governor for some tips. Or just stop phoning it in, perhaps?

[tavalon]

56. It's time to put this really shitty night to bed

Tomorrow, we start to show these upstarts as the useless Party of No.

[Recursion]

57. It was the 50-state strategy that brought us all those blue dogs that lost last night

There are pros and cons to both ways of doing things. The 50 state strategy was basically a copy of the GOP's "big tent" idea (that phrase was coined by Atwater about the party's support for pro-choice New England Republicans, a basically defunct group now) -- try to produce very broad support, which by necessity must in that case be shallow. They're now going for narrow but deep. We can do the same; we'll probably pick up some rust belt and west coast seats we don't have now. Though that model comes with plenty of disadvantages of its own.