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Early Dividends For The 50 State Strategy

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Blog Related
Posted on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 11:45:42 AM EST
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When I defended Howard Dean's 50 State Strategy earlier, I must admit it was not because I was thinking of this:

Could it be that Howard Dean is really a savvy political strategist? . . [F]ollowing the Mark Foley scandal, Democrats are talking about not just winning the House but piling up as many as 40 new seats and also capturing the Senate. And some of the places where they are now competing lie in the blood-red states where Dean has been on his lonely crusade to find blue voters. . . . "If we win a House seat in Nebraska, Howard Dean will get more credit than Rahm Emanuel," says Barry Rubin, executive director of the Nebraska Democratic Party.

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    Early Dividends For The 50 State Strategy | 3 comments (3 topical)
    Re: Early Dividends For The 50 State Strategy (none / 0) (#1)
    by Che's Lounge on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 12:01:30 PM EST
    Dean is WAY too much of a straight shooter (AKA honest) for our current political facade. I certainly don't agree with him on some issues, but I admire his confrontational style, his HONESTY. His agenda is not based upon lies and deceptions.

    The RWNJ's say the Dems are too wimpy, but Dean is crazy. Another successful republican smear job. Forget his solutions. We don't need no stinking solutions. This continued regurgitation of contradiction is where the neocons truly excell. It keeps us confused, thus more easily controlled.

    Re: Early Dividends For The 50 State Strategy (none / 0) (#2)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 12:30:24 PM EST
    Why, one wonders, do poor people vote against their economic self interests? In the South, as everywhere else, race plays a big part and so does religion in answering this question. These are powerful tools that the Republicans have fully exploited and one has to be very articulate, as well as tactful in addressing them. And it seems it must be done in the regional dialect, so Howard Dean is about the last person you'd expect to win back the South for the Democrats. As far as I know there is no big populist movement these days in the old Confederacy, either. I'm skeptical on much progress being made there until sustained, largescale grassroots efforts in political organizing and especially union organizing can be made. This is what has occurred in Michigan and Illinois in the last 10-15 years which has resulted in a tendency for Democrats to win at the state level.

    Re: Early Dividends For The 50 State Strategy (none / 0) (#3)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 12:46:12 PM EST
    You don't understand the 50 state strategy. Click the first link for my discussion of it.

    Your comment does not discuss the 50 State strategy.

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