DNC hires Mary Beth Cahill as interim CEO

[karynnj]

18. No presidential campaign builds the state parties that is something the DNC needs to do

In the primaries, the candidates have to win the nomination. Then the nominee has to expand the campaign to run a 50 state race. The candidate NEEDS to have the local parties functioning well. One huge problem Kerry had was many state parties were very weak. This meant a lot of the GOTVwas done by organizations that could not directly advocate for Kerry. If Ohio had a strong, organized party, they would have noticed that cities were getting fewer voting machines than they got in the primaries. Fixing it that would have led to a President Kerry.

Howard Dean in 2005 took on the task of fixing the state party as DNC HEAD. Had he won the nomination in 2004, he would have been stuck with the same weak state parties Kerry had.