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Dean, Other DNC Chair Candidates Campaign for South's Endorsement
Associated Press ^ | January 8, 2005 | Harry R. Weber

Posted on 01/08/2005 4:03:15 PM PST by Pharmboy

COLLEGE PARK, Ga. (AP) - Seven candidates for chairman of the Democratic National Committee promised Saturday to address the concerns of Southern voters, saying they had learned the lessons of the past two elections. "You want to know my Southern strategy, show up," said Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who dropped out of the presidential race during last year's Democratic primaries.

Dean and the other candidates seeking to replace Terry McAuliffe as the face of the Democratic Party spoke before a Southern audience at the first of several regional caucuses to give Democratic Party officials a chance to hear from them.

"You can't compete in just 19 or 20 states," said former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, another candidate for national party chairman. "You get better odds in Las Vegas than with that program."

Each of the candidates addressed questions on how the Democratic Party can attract women, black and minority voters. None offered to change the party's positions, but all suggested the party needs to focus the issues more.

The chairman's job will be filled in February when the Democratic National Committee holds its winter meetings.

Also running for the spot are former Texas Rep. Martin Frost, Democratic strategist Donnie Fowler, former Indiana Rep. Tim Roemer, former Ohio state Democratic Party chair David Leland and Simon Rosenberg, head of the New Democrat Network.

"It's not just about spending more money," Rosenberg said in an interview before the forum. "Money also needs to have strategy."

Roemer said if elected he would work harder to appeal to rural voters in the South and Midwest, two areas that have gone solidly to Bush in the last two elections.

"Some people think we need to steer left. Some people think I would steer the party right. It's not about that. It's about expanding the bus," Roemer said.

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a fellow Democrat, told the candidates that the party needs to listen more to local officials. He said he is proof that Democrats know how to win on the statewide level in the South, and that can be translated to the presidential election with a more comprehensive strategy.

"The next time around, we want a 50-state platform. We want a 50-state party," Bredesen said to loud applause. "To my party, get out of Washington more."


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KEYWORDS: 2004election; davidleland; dean; democrats; dncchairman; donniefowler; election2004; elections; failure; howarddean; martinfrost; roemer; ruralvote; simonrosenberg; south; southernvote; vermont
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To: Dan from Michigan

Fritz Hollins is the ideal man for the job, if the progrossive party really wants to win the south.


21 posted on 01/08/2005 4:40:49 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (The Progrossive Democrats are never so small a minority that they can't screw every thing up.)
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To: Pharmboy
Hey y`all weel jus have a ho down to git us some southern votes.


22 posted on 01/08/2005 4:41:00 PM PST by carlr
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To: Dan from Michigan
"None offered to change the party's positions, but all suggested the party needs to focus the issues more."

That's the winning strategery; sell that liberal cocktail harder! See, they they still think they haven't gotten their message out. More evidence of **How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Democrats.**

23 posted on 01/08/2005 4:43:15 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Dan from Michigan
He'd be a good person for the post......;)

Down here in Texas, we're rooting for Molly Beth Malcolm.

Easy on the eyes...shrill on the ears...and dumb as a post.

She presided over the demolition of the Texas State Democratic Party. She's capable of doing the same to the DNC.

Just ask her about abortion...

24 posted on 01/08/2005 4:48:23 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Pharmboy

Yes. Did re-enacting. Unit was 4th Virginia.


25 posted on 01/08/2005 4:50:07 PM PST by 383rr (Those who choose security over liberty deserve neither-)
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To: okie01
Here she is with someone I KNOW is not a Freeper...


26 posted on 01/08/2005 4:51:25 PM PST by Pharmboy (Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
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To: 383rr

Good for you...I'm a RevWar nut myself.


27 posted on 01/08/2005 4:53:06 PM PST by Pharmboy (Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
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To: Pharmboy
HAVE FUN IN THE SOUTH..LOL
28 posted on 01/08/2005 5:00:57 PM PST by hipaatwo
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To: F.J. Mitchell
Fritz Hollins is the ideal man for the job, if the progrossive party really wants to win the south.

Would never work. Fritz hollins concedes that he only won elections out of habit.

From listening to him, I get the feeling, he doesn't really personally like most of the democratic party, or even people in general.

29 posted on 01/08/2005 5:16:41 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Pharmboy

Did you notice they guy has a CNN pin on his vest?


30 posted on 01/08/2005 5:17:43 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: goldstategop
Yeah really. The Democrats have a party organization in many Southern states... NOT!!!

The Democraps have effective county organizations in most counties in the South, but they are effective locally by having nothing to do with the national party.

SO9

31 posted on 01/08/2005 5:18:11 PM PST by Servant of the 9 (What I just said.)
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To: Sonny M

YES! And that is PRECISELY why I knew he wasn't a Freeper...


32 posted on 01/08/2005 5:22:50 PM PST by Pharmboy (Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
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To: Socratic

"War kin he-un git-uh hunt'in license?"

Dunno, prob'ly down ta the seben-eleben. Him n' his'n both.


33 posted on 01/08/2005 5:25:42 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Pharmboy

Hope the Dems give consideration to input from Islamic terrorists, which is one of their newer constituency groups.


34 posted on 01/08/2005 5:30:04 PM PST by Pittsburg Phil
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To: Pharmboy

The rebel yell started off low and was long roar then slowly went higher in pitch, the closer the the confederate forces came to the invaders, until it reached the point as it is described by a union soldier of a "deafly loathsum, and all together frightening roar that strikes fear into my heart before every battle" -James E. Warner 30th Infintary, MI


35 posted on 01/08/2005 5:31:17 PM PST by DixieOklahoma (Alabama - in 2006 vote ROY MOORE governor! - don't let us down!)
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To: Sonny M

LOL! From listening to him, I wonder how his mama ever toilet trained him-assuming that he ever was toilet trained.


36 posted on 01/08/2005 5:44:44 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (The Progrossive Democrats are never so small a minority that they can't screw every thing up.)
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To: Pittsburg Phil

Thank God(and I don't mean allah) that their newer constituency group was inelligable to vote enmasse in our election! Envision Kerry beating Bush by a billion votes. Nightmare on Main street, Elm street, every other d*mn street.


37 posted on 01/08/2005 5:58:32 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (The Progrossive Democrats are never so small a minority that they can't screw every thing up.)
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To: Pharmboy

Okay, Dean.

You can have the South.
Really, you can; Bring on the DNC.

My only stipulations are that you:

Respect my private property, respect my right to keep and bear arms under the 2nd Amendment, abandon the Democratic party's systematic support for the slaughter of innocent children in their own wombs, abandon the Democratic party's systematic attacks on legitimate business and adopt capitalism and it's policies, cut taxes and lower tax rates for employers and employees alike, oppose racist and race-based discrimination policies call "affirmative action", defend America from it's enemies across the globe (your top priority in government), support military financing, recognize and oppose communism, fascism, and Islamic fundamentalism as the threats to all of mankind that they are and battle them accordingly, and denounce your past (present) affiliation with the clinically insane likes of Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, and Ted Kennedy.

That's all you need to do really. Do this and we'll all be Democrats.

This is the sound of me holding my breath....
...holding....
....holding...


38 posted on 01/08/2005 6:07:24 PM PST by RockAgainsttheLeft04 (Chaos is great. Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling. -- from Heathers (1989))
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To: Pharmboy

"The next time around, we want a 50-state platform. We want a 50-state party," Bredesen said to loud applause. "To my party, get out of Washington more."
This from a bunch that agrees that they need more Black, women and minority voters. Just whom do they think has been voting for them? This is a good sign. They are far from "getting it."


40 posted on 01/09/2005 7:37:01 AM PST by jmaroneps37 ( Frist/ Blackwell in 2008 for a landslide: you saw it here first.)
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