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Ken Burch

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3. No...no...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 01:12 AM

Feb 2018

Last edited Fri Feb 2, 2018, 11:43 AM - Edit history (1)

She helped cost us the White House in 1988 and 2004. In both cases, we lost essentially unloseable races (Dukakis was seventeen freaking points AHEAD after the convention) because we did what she told us to do and left every right-wing smear unchallenged, while refusing to defend the idea of being "liberal" when both Bushes attacked it

Bringing her back means running the 2020 race the SAME way.

It means giving up on winning.

What possible justification could there be for EVER running another campaign the way the Dukakis and Kerry campaigns were run?

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DNC hires Mary Beth Cahill as interim CEO [View all] brooklynite Feb 2018 OP

I wish her well. riversedge Feb 2018 #1

Oh no. RandySF Feb 2018 #2

Why "Oh no?" murielm99 Feb 2018 #4

The Kerry campaign was a disaster. RandySF Feb 2018 #5

Disaster? We Lost By 70000 votes in one state or JK would be President Corey_Baker08 Feb 2018 #8

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2018 #13

Exactly. Junior stole it twice: once in FL, once in OH. lagomorph777 Mar 2018 #14

His primary win,which Cahill led on, was very smooth and decisive karynnj Mar 2018 #16

No...no...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ken Burch Feb 2018 #3

The DNC jl_theprofessor Feb 2018 #6

Good point. Ken Burch Feb 2018 #11

Thanks for the info. Does NOT auger well for us in 2018. And the stakes are so, so high. stuffmatters Feb 2018 #9

You know that the DNC doesn't run campaigns, right? brooklynite Feb 2018 #10

Yes...but the mindset at the DNC informs the way campaigns are run. Ken Burch Feb 2018 #12

No presidential campaign builds the state parties that is something the DNC needs to do karynnj Mar 2018 #18

Your post was a creative, though thoroughly unsupported, series of allegations. LanternWaste Mar 2018 #15

Bush was highly favored to win 2004 karynnj Mar 2018 #17

I'm trying to understand the hierarchy of the DNC. Difference between chairman and CEO? YOHABLO Feb 2018 #7