1.30.2005
Dean's Past as Prologue to DNC Future (WashingtonPost.com)
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 30, 2005; Page A04
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 -- As Howard Dean campaigns here for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, his supporters feel an eerie echo of his campaign a year ago for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Once again, he is the prohibitive favorite to win with just two weeks to go before the voting. Once again, the other candidates in the field, trailing badly, are hoping to position themselves as the most viable alternative to Dean. Once again, Dean is making a red-meat appeal to the liberal base of the party.
Friday's Question:
Which president was the first to have a Cabinet nominee formally rejected by the Senate?
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
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"We cannot be Republican-light if you want to win elections," he says to cheers here at the DNC's Eastern Regional meeting Saturday, the last gathering before party members vote on Feb. 12 for a successor to Terence R. McAuliffe. While other candidates counsel a move to the right and a drastic change for an enfeebled party, a sanguine Dean says, Democrats "cannot change our convictions."
Last year, of course, Dean's front-running candidacy collapsed in the Iowa caucus and the former Vermont governor's subsequent outburst. But if Dean cannot win this race, in which he faces a group of six little-known party workers and former office holders, that would really be reason to scream.
(More ... Dean's Past as Prologue to DNC Future (washingtonpost.com)) ¶ 21:46
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 30, 2005; Page A04
NEW YORK, Jan. 29 -- As Howard Dean campaigns here for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, his supporters feel an eerie echo of his campaign a year ago for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Once again, he is the prohibitive favorite to win with just two weeks to go before the voting. Once again, the other candidates in the field, trailing badly, are hoping to position themselves as the most viable alternative to Dean. Once again, Dean is making a red-meat appeal to the liberal base of the party.
Friday's Question:
Which president was the first to have a Cabinet nominee formally rejected by the Senate?
Andrew Jackson
James Buchanan
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
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"We cannot be Republican-light if you want to win elections," he says to cheers here at the DNC's Eastern Regional meeting Saturday, the last gathering before party members vote on Feb. 12 for a successor to Terence R. McAuliffe. While other candidates counsel a move to the right and a drastic change for an enfeebled party, a sanguine Dean says, Democrats "cannot change our convictions."
Last year, of course, Dean's front-running candidacy collapsed in the Iowa caucus and the former Vermont governor's subsequent outburst. But if Dean cannot win this race, in which he faces a group of six little-known party workers and former office holders, that would really be reason to scream.
(More ... Dean's Past as Prologue to DNC Future (washingtonpost.com)) ¶ 21:46
