(1) AFL-CIO won't do endorsement. This is good news for Dean. (2) Is Dean a sure thing? Probably. (3) Details on Mon. vote. (4) Endorsements.
AFL-CIO leaders decided today not to make an endorsement in the race for Democratic National Committee chairman, a move that could make it harder for any of Dean's rivals to stop his push for the party leadership.
(cnn)
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After the Association of State Democratic Chairmen (ASDC) formally backed Dean on Monday, several operatives for rival campaigns said that Dean’s dominant showing among the key DNC constituency could mean that the race, to be decided on Feb. 12, is all but over.
As noted in prior posts, on Sunday the executive committee endorsed Fowler after Dean failed to win a majority of the votes on the first ballot. But unlike the executive committee’s vote, the full ASDC membership on Monday gave Dean well more than half of its votes on the first ballot, preventing an alternative to Dean to come forward as the consensus candidate.
If the 447 DNC delegates roughly track the ASDC trend, Dean would most likely win on the first round of voting.
In the ASDC balloting yesterday morning, Dean got 56 votes. The remaining six candidates polled a total of 35 votes.
By contrast, in the first round of the executive committee’s vote, Dean earned six votes, with nine others disbursed to other candidates, allowing eight of them to settle on Fowler.
To date Webb had dropped out of the race and endorsed Dean.
(Numbers from The Hill.)
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Any other endorsements for Dean? My friend Mel has pointed me to the below-noted comments. I don't think the first one is really an endorsement, do you?
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From Rush Limbaugh on 1-31-05:
"Please make him the chairman, please? Please? Please? I hope you guys in the Democratic Party see the wisdom of this."
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And from Dick Morris in the 1-31-05 New York Post:
"Now, in choosing their new national leader, the Democratic Party is publishing a . . . suicide note. It reads 'Chairman Howard Dean.'"
"What kind of chairman will Dean make? He will probably be as bad for the party's prospects as Nancy Pelosi has been as Democratic leader in the House. He will dig a deeper and deeper hole for the party, alienating its moderate donors and holding it hostage to the likes of Michael Moore and the Hollywood left."
(Morris also provides the only answer I have seen to the question I asked a couple of days ago about why Harold Ickes got involved for Dean. Morris writes:
"[W]hy is Harold Ickes, the putative spokesperson for the Clintons, embracing the choice? Because Dean's momentum is unstoppable and nobody wants to stand in the way of the avalanche of self-destructiveness which is pouring onto the Democrats from their left-wing supporters."
(cnn)
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After the Association of State Democratic Chairmen (ASDC) formally backed Dean on Monday, several operatives for rival campaigns said that Dean’s dominant showing among the key DNC constituency could mean that the race, to be decided on Feb. 12, is all but over.
As noted in prior posts, on Sunday the executive committee endorsed Fowler after Dean failed to win a majority of the votes on the first ballot. But unlike the executive committee’s vote, the full ASDC membership on Monday gave Dean well more than half of its votes on the first ballot, preventing an alternative to Dean to come forward as the consensus candidate.
If the 447 DNC delegates roughly track the ASDC trend, Dean would most likely win on the first round of voting.
In the ASDC balloting yesterday morning, Dean got 56 votes. The remaining six candidates polled a total of 35 votes.
By contrast, in the first round of the executive committee’s vote, Dean earned six votes, with nine others disbursed to other candidates, allowing eight of them to settle on Fowler.
To date Webb had dropped out of the race and endorsed Dean.
(Numbers from The Hill.)
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Any other endorsements for Dean? My friend Mel has pointed me to the below-noted comments. I don't think the first one is really an endorsement, do you?
_______________
From Rush Limbaugh on 1-31-05:
"Please make him the chairman, please? Please? Please? I hope you guys in the Democratic Party see the wisdom of this."
_______________
And from Dick Morris in the 1-31-05 New York Post:
"Now, in choosing their new national leader, the Democratic Party is publishing a . . . suicide note. It reads 'Chairman Howard Dean.'"
"What kind of chairman will Dean make? He will probably be as bad for the party's prospects as Nancy Pelosi has been as Democratic leader in the House. He will dig a deeper and deeper hole for the party, alienating its moderate donors and holding it hostage to the likes of Michael Moore and the Hollywood left."
(Morris also provides the only answer I have seen to the question I asked a couple of days ago about why Harold Ickes got involved for Dean. Morris writes:
"[W]hy is Harold Ickes, the putative spokesperson for the Clintons, embracing the choice? Because Dean's momentum is unstoppable and nobody wants to stand in the way of the avalanche of self-destructiveness which is pouring onto the Democrats from their left-wing supporters."
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