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...learned anything from the Presidential election season, it’s that we should never assume that a candidate has anything locked up, especially when that candidate is Howard Dean. But Dean??s luck seems to have improved in the recent week. Doctor Dean??s uncontested victory to become Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is good news for the Party and for the country...
Instead of live music from bands like Makodo Concern and Incadence, who played on Friday, the next Pub Night will feature music from DJ BC, who is known during daylight hours as Freshman Dean??s Office Administrator Bob Cronin...
...even when he had an “untouchable” eighty percent approval rating. Maybe—because the presidential nominee has always determined a party’s success far more than any committee chair—my fellow New Democrats can spend less time despairing about Dean??s ACLU streak, and more time celebrating the fact that (unlike all of us) Dean has always had the guts to go after Bush’s perceived strengths—his support from Southerners and people of faith, and his supposed toughness on national security?...
...over to the states, but he has supported proposals that would put more money, and therefore more power, in the hands of state organizations. Dean calls it “grassroots.” It fits with his “outside the Beltway” rhetoric. But Dean??s brand of localism needs a few tweaks if it is going to work...
...solve this problem without giving up on localism is to steal a play from Dean??s primary campaign. Dean needed to get a lot of people excited about his campaign because otherwise he wasn’t going to have enough money to pay the heating bill for his Vermont office. If the DNC cuts the state parties a check at the beginning of every year, the parties have no incentive to use the money effectively. If they mobilize fewer voters, they have easier jobs and they can spend less money keeping volunteers happy. If the DNC gives...