{"id":240,"date":"2006-04-20T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=240"},"modified":"2006-04-20T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2006-04-20T23:20:15","slug":"how-is-howard-dean-doing-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/04\/20\/how-is-howard-dean-doing-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"How is Howard Dean doing, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>“Yeeeaaa!!”, yourself!<\/p>\n

Despite tending toward the “He’s doing no good” slant, this New Republic article<\/a> does indeed lay out the divisions of Dean’s “50 State Strategy”– long – term versus short – term. I can lay out various articles through the last two decades starting with the disasterous 1980 election which show complaints of the organization being top-down to the point where only Carter was being paid for… by 1996 they came back full-circle and the DNC was essentially back to buttressing up the top man. <\/p>\n

For what it is worth, Charlie Cook believes Dean is doing what he needs to…<\/p>\n

… which is, and this is essentially what I was wanting to say here…<\/p>\n

What Dean is doing is running into areas of the country where the Democratic Party has become defunct and non-existent — Salatia, Mississippi for instance, and recruiting and laying the money and buttressing up the local Democratic Party organization so that they might be able to elect a Democratic Dog Catcher.<\/p>\n

Good or bad, take it or leave it. It pays off when the dog catchers are able to support a Presidential bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Yeeeaaa!!”, yourself! Despite tending toward the “He’s doing no good” slant, this New Republic article does indeed lay out the divisions of Dean’s “50 State Strategy”– long – term versus short – term. I can lay out various articles through the last two decades starting with the disasterous 1980 election which show complaints of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}