Some Democrats aren't buying the DNC's new 50-state strategy
by Laura Barrón-López | Feb 4, 2018, 12:01 AM
Democrats aren't counting on a blue wave to carry them in this year's midterm elections. Nothing is preordained in politics, as the 2016 cycle made painfully clear, so this time, they’re reading from an old playbook: Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy.
Widely panned for the plan at the time, the former Democratic National Committee chairman confounded critics when in 2006, Democrats took control of the House and Senate for the first time in more than a decade.
The state party infrastructure built by Dean paved the way for former President Barack Obama’s historic victory two years later. But by 2016, those gains were bulldozed by Obama’s takeover of the DNC during his presidency, leaving the party crumbling, in debt, and searching for answers. State parties were neglected as the DNC’s sole purpose revolved around keeping Obama in the White House.
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