The Democratic Party looked completely dead and irrelevant after the tragic stolen/lost Election episodes of 2000, 2002, 2004, and their voiceless aftermath.
Thanks in large part to this blog site, MoveOn.org, and purely grassroots initiatives, Howard Dean then became voted in as the DNC Chairman (replacing Terry McAuliffe), and proceeded to launch a new National 50-state strategy that changed the equation, and made Democrats competitive once again in places they had not been in for decades.
But three years ago, Howard Dean was openly mocked and vilified by Democratic party insiders and Washington Democrats for spending DNC resources in places such as Alaska, the South, and the West. Rahm Emanuel, the then Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman, opposed and fought against Howard Dean's strategy tooth and nail, and he and other Party insiders even made public calls for Dean's resignation (and wanted DLC insider Harold Ford Jr. to replace him) to keep their failed ways going.
This week, Alaskans watched Mark Begich swear in as their newly elected Democratic Senator. This is just one example of the payoff from Dean's 50-state outreach, that has proven to be wildly successful in both the 2006 and 2008 Elections.
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