Rasmussen: Romney May Be the End of the Line for the Republican Establishment

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2. This is where Howard Dean and BHO came from

Need I remind folks that John Kerry was the "electable one" in 2004? Hillary was supposed to be the "electable one" in 2008.

Gore, Kerry, and then Hillary ran the "no margin for error" campaign. You take all the understood blue states, and you win. The problem always was that if you miss only one of them, you lose. Hillary deployed her primary campaign to take all the big blue states, and ignored the red and pink states. This had become standard practice for the DLC candidates. The BHO side knew that if he took all the red and pink states, and one or two of the blue states late in the contest, he had the nomination.

Dean argued against "electability", Obama made it walk.

The republicans will end up doing much the same, but starting now, they will not have it together for 2016, because the money power likely does not believe in it. Dean brought money and power to reform and expanding the base as DNC chair. While Rahm and some others did not like it much, it powered wins in 2006 and 2008, and the neglect of it powered a loss in 2010.