I don't think Jamie Harrison is up to the job. We need someone like Howard Dean who is proactive,

[JohnSJ]

and gets out there and motivates people

[Me.]

1. And, As He's In Charge

he needs to stop complaining about what the dems aren't doing. It's up to him.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

2. Can't argue with this

Where was he and the DNC at this year?

[Peregrine Took]

3. He seems nice enough but Stacy A. might have been better.

Being an old "Deaniac," of course, I love Howard Dean -his smarts and his passion

and his "50 State Strategy" would be an excellent roadmap for the future.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Howard Dean brought messaging skills and issue clarity that most party chairs lack

Jaime Harrison is a prodigious fundraiser, but it didn't win his Senate race. As a former Governor, Howard Dean had ballast and stature. We need to go in that direction. So I agree with the OP.

[SMC22307]

5. Agree. (n/t)

[brooklynite]

6. People keep bringing up Howard Dean because...

...they like his speeches, and they know he had something called a "50-State strategy" which they can't actually define.

The DNC Chair is NOT the voice of Party. The DNC Chair raises money and works with State Parties to develop local infrastructure. Neither of those planks would have changed the outcome of the Virginia races.

[JohnSJ]

8. Dean, McCaulfe, Perez, Wasserman Schultz, etc. were out there on various news shows, pushing

the Democratic agenda along with working with state parties and raising money

His job is to push an agenda to raise money, and I don’t think he is doing a particularly good job of that. The emails I have received from him soliciting money are not particularly inspiring

[elleng]

9. but he was a loud VOICE at the time, appreciated by many Dems,

and many of us did and do understand the 50 state strategy, different from rahm who refused to acknowledge Dean's approach (at an event I attended.)

[brooklynite]

11. But that's not what we needed in Virginia.

[Mysterian]

12. How do you know that's not what we needed in Virginia? n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Howard Dean lucked out and had George Bush's Republican Party to run against.

Bush's approval rating when Dean ran the DNC was in the 20s and 30s and the Republicans were decimated largely due to his incompetence, not anything special Dean did.

[Tribetime]

10. I think in this toxic environment unless there's someone like Michael avenatti

Personality it won't matter

[Deminpenn]

13. Howard Dean had a real knack for plain speaking

That's what made him different. No BS, just straight talk.

I saw Harrison on with Wallace today and was pretty disappointed.

[JohnSJ]

15. At least he made an appearance.

[helpisontheway]

14. He is awful! Only got the job because Clyburn demanded it

Don’t get me wrong..I wanted Jaime to kick Lindsay Graham’s butt. However, he is not the right person for this job.

[Deminpenn]

17. Part of the price Biden had to pay for Clyburn's support

in the SC primary, imho.

[Celerity]

19. yes, his Senate campaign should have set off major warning signs. He took one outlier poll, weeks

before the election, that showed him within the margin of error versus Graham, and then convinced so many that he had a chance, thus drawing in and wasting tens of millions of dollars on a fantasyland, wish-fulfilment Charge of the Light Brigade. He never came close to spending all that money, and the national apparatus never shifted it to help candidates like Bullock in MY and Greenfield in IA (to a lesser extent, and unlike Bullock, she was not the best candidate we could have had there, Bullock was the ONLY best possible Dem Senate candidate who lost).

Bullock actually WAS leading (and Greenfield was close) until last minute insane RW dark money advert dumps that buried them late, and for which they had nowhere near enough money to counter. The same thing happened in fantasyland races KY and Texas, and (to a lesser extent) Maine. They all shit away so much money that could have went elsewhere. I was warning on this for weeks BEFORE the elections.

Harrison's model was based off smoke and mirrors. He never was up to being the national DNC head. I said this before he was chosen as well, and caught hell.

[dalton99a]

16. Yep. Hard-charging, in-your-face leaders are needed to motivate the troops and confront the enemy.

[Grasswire2]

18. maybe it is time for some of those marinated in comity, bipartisanship and traditions of Congress..

...to step down now and let people who came to maturity in the information age off the bench.

It's a new world, and it's a death match.

So many talented people are held back from leadership and power.