Breaking: DNC's, ah, *miserable failure* at raising convention cash confirmed.
I seem to have seriously underestimated Chairman Dean's desire for self-immolation.
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I was certain that he would have been able to avoid the embarrassment. Well, it's not the first time that I've been wrong.
Denver $11.6M short of DNC fundraising goal
DENVER (AP) — Denver's host committee for the Democratic National Convention fell $11.6 million short of a $40.6 million fundraising goal set by the Democratic National Committee.
The $40.6 million was to be raised by a Monday midnight deadline. The host committee reported Monday it had raised $29 million.
Well, time to write that check, Senator Obama. Quickly: the City of Denver is not going to appreciate having to pick up the tab for your party. Whoops! Hold on. Not 11.6 million. $21.6 million: they actually need $50 million total, and it's for darn sure by now that you can't count on Dean to get the rest of the cash...
Moe Lane
PS: You're good for it, right? I only ask because you haven't released your May numbers yet.
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But it'll hurt 'em a bit.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
spawn to feed. Wouldn't it be great if he wasted his entire fortune and all he got out of it was a lousy MoveOn t-shirt? That's one bum I'd love to see begging on the street!
Tim Schieferecke
His strategy of putting up young politicians in every district and supporting races everywhere has paid off for his party.
He was able to ride an anti-republican wave better than the earlier strategies.
Our party needs to implement the same sort of thing. We need to find and groom younger candidates and try to compete everywhere.
Then when the political wind changes again we can rebuild a majority.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
Say whatever one will about Dean, I think its willful blindness to deny that his 50 State Strategy idea has borne fruit and it would do us well to take a good look at it and try and adapt some form of it to our needs.
"First you win the argument, then you win the vote." - MARGARET THATCHER.
So let's start winning the argument.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
You don't have to do that. If you really study the election results, you can see hope in almost every state except the insane in MA and VT. For example, look at the presidental elections in 2000 and 2004. Most of NY is RED! While NYC would likely prevent a conservative republican from winning for the White House, there is a lot of opportunity to gain in the House and in state races. And the better a presidential candidate does in a state, the better the odds for all the republicans.
The 50 state strategy is brilliant and we should always have a candidate running for every office except in the two states mentioned.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I am cool with runnig a bunch of candidates like both the Senior and Junior Senators from Maine, throughout New England, Washington, and Oregon.
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
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"First you win the argument, then you win the vote." - MARGARET THATCHER.
So let's start winning the argument.
We just need activists as interested in local politics as they are in the national.
We don't need any top-down directives. We need to build up from the bottom.
Well, I'm not about to disagree with you on the local aspect because I would certainly not consider any 50 State Strategy that doesn't place a premium on having a Republican for every office listed on the ballot.
For a party that purports to be for Federalism, the GOP rank and file's failure to take local and state races every bit as seriously as Federal races is disappointing.
The Democrats that won those supposedly solid Republican seats in LA and MS were helped significantly by the fact that they were local office holders.
"First you win the argument, then you win the vote." - MARGARET THATCHER.
So let's start winning the argument.
However I'm not about to look to the RNC, NRSC, and NRCC to do get a candidate for every office, every time, especially when that needs to start lower, at the state legislative level and below.
"First you win the argument, then you win the vote." - MARGARET THATCHER.
So let's start winning the argument.
What I do find funny is the resistance from some in the Democratic Party to his strategy. I don't think they fully understand that you pretty much have to run moderate to conservative Democrats in certain districts/states if you have any intention of winning them (short of a male page scandal, anyway).
Dean is fully correct to expand the scope of the party. It will take a long time to really succeed, if indeed it does, but it's the only way to really contest those states that people like McAulliffe have largely ignored.
You mean to actively lie to the constituents in order to get elected?
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His strategy of putting up young politicians in every district and supporting races everywhere has paid off for his party.
Not really. Granted these candidates did win, but not as democrats, but as left leaning conservatives with a small d for party affiliation.
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let's book them complimentary rooms at the airport Motel 6. We will even provide limo service for disoriented liberals - airport limo, that is.
Dang, that's a lot of scratch to come up with on short time.
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