Howard Dean Will Not Seek Second Term As DNC Chair

Posted by: Tristan

Every cloud has a silver lining, and if this election has one, it’s that Howard Dean might be getting less time speaking on camera.  He’ll be stepping down as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee in January.

Dean has been credited with creating a successful campaign strategy which defeated the Republican party, even though the Republicans were perfectly happy to self-destruct by themselves.

Dean was the architect of a “50-State Strategy,” investing money and staff in every state — including those where Democrats had long fared poorly — to build party infrastructure and lay the groundwork for electoral gains. The Obama campaign, working with DNC organizers in all 50 states, won several states that had not elected a Democratic president in decades, including Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana.

Of course,  it’s pretty easy for the Democrats to win new states when Democrats are leaving states they already dominate (and are slowly killing) for Red States which are actually creating good jobs.  Once in these new states, these voters, oblivious to the factors which lead them to move in the first place, set out to kill the golden goose.

So long, douchebag.