Another General Election cycle, another Democratic Party loss.

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184. So in other words, you don't have any proof.

Here's my google search for "Howard Dean" 50 "State Strategy"


http://www.governing.com/blogs/politics/gov-democrat-howard-deans-fifty-state-strategy.html

Looking Back at Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy
Despite opposition from national Democrats, the former Vermont governor's bid to build up party infrastructure in every state was a success in the unlikeliest of places -- at least while it lasted.
by Louis Jacobson | May 6, 2013
When former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean became chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in early 2005, one of his main efforts was to undertake a "50-state strategy," a bid to build up party infrastructure and candidate recruitment at every level and in every state -- even in solidly Republican bastions.
"We strengthened the parties so sitting governors could find good candidates" for offices high and low, Dean said. "That's much easier to do from Topeka than it is from Washington."
State party chairs loved the idea, but among national strategists, the approach was controversial. Dean bumped heads with then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who believed in a more conventional strategy of focusing limited campaign resources on swing districts. On CNN, Paul Begala said Dean's gambit amounted to "hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose." (Begala later apologized.)
Dean has long since left the DNC -- he served four years, departing in early 2009 -- and the 50-state strategy has faded from memories. But looking at it from today's vantage point, the project offers a nifty example of how modest investments in party infrastructure can pay tangible dividends -- and how those dividends can disappear once the investments dry up.

Wot? I thought the 50 State Strategy never ended. Ahh I guess cutting the amount of funding is different from canceling

http://www.fairvote.org/research-and-analysis/blog/the-real-november-election-showdown-howard-deans-50-state-strategy-vs-rahm-emmanuels-traditional-approach/

The Real November Election Showdown: Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy vs. Rahm Emmanuel's Traditional Approach
by David Moon // Published November 7, 2006
Dean vs. Emmanuel: When former Vermont governor Howard Dean took the helm of the Democratic National Committee, he made a strategic decision to pump resources into all 50 states, in an attempt to build the Democratic Party in places where it hasn"t been competitive in presidential races and most federal races for years. His so-called "50-state strategy" has been the source of much controversy, leading to Dean"s public battles with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Rahm Emanuel, who favors focused spending on targeted races. Many think the results of tonights election results will indicate which party leader had the right approach. Not so fast....

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/nov/11/barack-obama-howard-dean-democrats

The redemption of Howard Dean
Ari Berman
Barack Obama's victory is proof that the DNC chair's 50-state strategy has revitalised the Democratic party
Tuesday 11 November 2008 11.00 EST Last modified on Saturday 4 October 2014 09.58 E
Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia are not states that Democrats normally win in presidential elections. Nor are Idaho or Alabama places where they customarily pick up congressional seats. And the unlikeliest rub of all: these Democratic takeovers in formerly red America were partially engineered by the recent governor of one of the bluest states in the country, Vermont.
Howard Dean inherited a moribund, disorganised and dispirited party when he became chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in February 2005. He patiently rebuilt the party from the bottom up, state by state, organiser by organiser. His 50-state strategy, as it came to be known, helped pave the way for the party's takeover of Congress in 2006, expanded majority in 2008 and Barack Obama's historic election.

Dean, who announced on Monday that he would step down as DNC chair at the end of his term in January, was vilified by much of the Washington establishment when he inherited the job. His presidential campaign in 2004 was viewed as a massive flameout after he came in third in the Iowa caucus - a loss punctuated by the infamous, media-manufactured "Dean scream" - and he possessed few of the insider connections that mark most DNC chairs. Yet Dean's unorthodox presidential campaign and DNC chairmanship in many ways laid the foundation for Obama's improbably candidacy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/magazine/01dean.html?pagewanted=all

The Inside Agitator

By MATT BAI
Published: October 1, 2006
Not all states are equal on an election map, and Alaska is one of those less populous states — like Kansas or Idaho or Alabama — that national Democrats almost never bother to visit. For one thing, just getting there presents a logistical ordeal: the journey from Washington takes as long as it would to reach, say, Nigeria, and even then you sometimes need a hydroplane to get around. And more to the point, there aren’t a whole lot of people to see once you get there. Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by a margin of 2 to 1 in oil-crazed Alaska, which hasn’t sent a Democrat to the House or Senate in more than 30 years. To put it another way, there were more Democrats in Central Park for the Dave Matthews concert a few years back than there are in the entire state of Alaska — all 656,000 square miles of it.

It seemed somewhat bizarre, then, when Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, chose to make the long odyssey to Alaska at the end of May, near what was the beginning of one of the most intense and closely contested national election campaigns in memory, when every other Democrat in Washington was talking about potentially decisive states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. It was also strange that no one in Democratic Washington seemed to know he was going. Although I had been following Dean closely for months, I found out about the trip accidentally and invited myself along — an intrusion that Dean seemed merely to tolerate. We met up first in Las Vegas, where he was making appearances with Harry Reid, the Senate minority leader. Dean, who enjoys his image as an unpretentious New Englander, is given to finding his own flights on discount Web sites, so it’s sometimes hard for even his own staff to track his itinerary. On the morning we left for Alaska, Dean went missing for a good half-hour. It turned out that he was in the business center of the MGM Grand, where he had been trying to figure out how to print his boarding pass but somehow ended up in an impromptu game of online backgammon with a guy who claimed to be in China.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082502463.html

Dean's 50-State Strategy Continues to Generate Debate
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, turns over the convention gavel to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Denver. (By Preston Keres -- The Washington Post)
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By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
DENVER, Aug. 25 -- When Howard Dean officially opened the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, he could look with satisfaction at the assembled delegates from all 50 states, knowing that many more states are in play this campaign season than were before he took over the party.
"Looking out from this podium tonight, I see this diverse assembly of Democrats as a testament to the strength and unity of our party and the fruition of our 50-state strategy," the party chairman told the throng as he gaveled the convention to session. "While the Democratic Party is the oldest continuing party in the world, I can also see that we are the most vibrant, inclusive and energized party, and we are ready to compete in all 50 states in November.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96956854

Dean Explains The Democrats' '50-State Strategy'
November 13, 200812:29 PM ET
Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, implemented the "50-State Strategy" to help the Democrats win big in 2008 — and it appears to have worked.
The "50-State Strategy" doesn't just focus on swing states and it doesn't write states off as "unwinnable." Instead, the goal is to campaign throughout the country, and win elections from the ground up.

http://truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/66811:howard-deans-50state-strategy-pays-off

Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy Pays Off
Monday, 13 November 2006 04:23 by: Anonymous
Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy Pays Off
By Scott Galindez
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Monday 13 November 2006
The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Rahm Emanuel, stormed out of Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Howard Dean's office in May after an expletive-filled tirade against the DNC's spending too much money, too early, in "non-battleground states." Emanuel was concerned the DNC would be broke and not on the playing field in November. The opposite was true, and the playing field was larger due to the early investment.

See a real 50 State Strategy has plenty of visibility.