The 50 State Strategy Will Be Modified
Posted on January 18, 2009 at 5:44 pmFrom Open Left:
In response to both questions Kaine talks about all the ways that Virginia has gone from red to blue over the last few years and gives credit to Dean for this. I see it more as going from reddish-purple to bluish-purple but okay. He says the 50-state strategy was “really important.” Good. He says “Its success speaks for itself.” Yes.
But in both answers he says they won’t being doing exactly what they did during the last 4 years. Kaine: “You never should just do what you did yesterday” and “We may do it in different ways.” More specifically, Virginia is not, say, Idaho and therefore: “I won’t say it should apply equally in every state.” But we will continue it in “new and exciting ways.”
What will be interesting is how this adapted 50 State strategy will affect Tennessee. One would assume due to Tennessee’s rejection of Obama and the Republican state legislative surge that Tennessee will be one of the lower priority states. More Idaho than Virginia, so to speak.
The Tennessee Democratic Party has relied the past two years on funds from the DNC borne out of the strategy. Whole salary positions at the party were funded out of DNC funds.
If these funds are to dry up (and reading between the lines here it is clear that they will) how will the Tennessee Democratic Party adapt?
Most importantly, who is best able to deal with this apparent setback amongst the candidates for TNDP chair, Chip Forrester or Charles Robert Bone?
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2 Responses to “The 50 State Strategy Will Be Modified”
So you take a vague reference to “not doing everything the same”, and then make a baseless jump to this having anything to do with Tennessee, then make a baseless jump to the TNDP losing funding positions then talk about this “setback”? Stick to aggregating only, ACK. Your “think-pieces” come from so far up Bill Hobbs’ warped (unmentionable), it’s pathetic.
It is clear to me that the Democrats that raise the money for the state party do not want Forrester as chair. If they bail out, which I think they will, and the DNC bails out, Forreter will be a total disaster.