Posted on 12/06/2006 9:40:22 AM PST by presidio9
2004 wasn’t Howard Dean’s year: he failed to become president of the United States. But 2006 looks more like a Dean year.
Dean, now chairman of the Democratic National Committee, met in Washington over the weekend with members of the party’s executive committee, to celebrate the Democrats’ success in last month’s elections.
During that meeting, something Dean said three years ago as a presidential contender came to mind.
“We have got to stop having the campaigns run in this country based on abortion, guns, God, and gays….”
Dean spoke for Democrats frustrated by the Republicans’ skill at motivating voters on issues such as same-sex marriage.
Did the voters in 2006 pay heed to the Dean of 2003?
Abortion, guns, God, and gays weren’t dominant issues in 2006. They did not play a decisive role in Republican losses in Senate races.
The Republicans’ positions on abortion, guns, God, and gays were not why they lost House seats in previously secure Republican districts in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Kansas, and Arizona. The Iraq war, retirements of veteran GOP incumbents, and personal scandal had more to do with the Democrats’ luck in gaining House seats.
Gay marriage recedes as campaign issue Proof that gay marriage had lost some of its punch as a voter motivator came in Pennsylvania where Sen. Rick Santorum, who’d spoken passionately in 2005 about the need for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages, hardly mentioned the issue in the final months of his re-
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So does this mean it's going to be Dean vs. Hitlery et al.?
"Abortion, guns, God, and gays weren’t dominant issues in 2006. They did not play a decisive role in Republican losses in Senate races."
BS. They played a great role since the Dems ran as right as or to the right of the Repubs on these issues in several areas and won.
More MSM dreaming of socialist Dean.
Howard Dean did not win the election. The GOP lost it.
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