For Deaniacs....good article giving him some credit....

[HardWorkingDem]

Here's a good article in the Nation that gives kudos to Howard Dean and his 50 state strategy.

This is the kind of stuff I like to read - you know, when someone makes some wild ass predictions that people scoff at, ridicule or just ignore and then time reveals the person to be dead on.

So Carville and Begalia and DLC - Howard told you so and here's proof he wasn't full of screaming hot air.


http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070813/moser

[mzmolly]

1. Dean is a visionary.

"You ought to be tiiiiiired of what's going on in government! It's a shame, and it's a sham. This is the party of what's right, they tell you. The party of God, they tell you. The party of moral values, they tell you. And if they can't play the God card, they'll play the military card. Now, I pray daily--and I beg you to--for our troops and what they're trying to accomplish over there with this needless, reckless war that's going on. I pray daily that God will hasten the day--"

Oh!

"--that they can return home and know war no more!" That gets a standing O.

What a great read, thanks am off to continue ...

[mzmolly]

2. Love this part:

Not a harsh word has been heard, at least publicly, from Dean's detractors since the Carville brouhaha. That's thanks not only to the intervention of saner voices but also to a study of the fifty-state strategy's impact on the 2006 midterm results by Elaine Kamarck. While the project had not been designed to win elections in the short run, Kamarck found that it had done just that, "increasing the Democratic vote share beyond the bounce of a national tide favoring Democrats." Comparing Democratic results in '06 with those of the '02 midterms, she found that the average Democratic vote went up by nearly 5 percent in 2006. But in the thirty-five Congressional districts where fifty-state staffers had worked on the campaigns, Democratic votes had soared by an average of nearly 10 percent.

"Nothing like a little straight analysis to cut through the bullshit, huh?" Kamarck says. "This came out in January and quickly got distributed. I kept running into the big-money guys and they had all read it. It was funny to see how quickly this went through the political fundraising community. They're desperate for something that is hard data as opposed to the nonstop sales pitches they get. And you never heard a peep after that from Carville."

LOL

[ellisonz]

3. Amen.