IIRC wasn’t dean made dnc chair at some point after? Maybe around the time of Obama? I feel like he was the one behind the winning 50 state strategy but I’m going purely on memory here…

Edit: for the amount of brain injuries I’ve had somehow my political memory works a little too well. Dean was indeed chair of the DNC before Obama became president and pursued a 50 state strategy to get Obama elected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-state_strategy

(Under mixed results)

To me it seems like the DNC has kept with the strategy of pushing the candidate that they feel has the most cross-party broad appeal. Both parties used to do that to a point. Republican's really began to pivot hard in the late 80's-90's.

Now we're at the point where there the GOP has embraced a cult of personality and anyone with half a brain or any moral fiber has either abandoned or effectively been exiled from the party. If Democrats were going to secure any more of those votes, they would have already done it. The third way Democrats are DOA whether they want to accept it or not.

I was a Dean guy. :(

I have a difficult time finding any reason to disagree with you.

This sort of energy.

Yes, but it worked. Trump actually did awful shit, and it did not. That's what I can't get past.

Covfefe