After watching what happened with Bernie and so on more recently, my belief is it was not an organic thing, but rather the DNC intentionally iced Dean with the complicity and assistance of the media.
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To me it seems like the DNC has kept with the strategy of pushing the candidate that they feel has the most cross-party broad appeal. Both parties used to do that to a point. Republican's really began to pivot hard in the late 80's-90's.
Now we're at the point where there the GOP has embraced a cult of personality and anyone with half a brain or any moral fiber has either abandoned or effectively been exiled from the party. If Democrats were going to secure any more of those votes, they would have already done it. The third way Democrats are DOA whether they want to accept it or not.
IIRC wasn’t dean made dnc chair at some point after? Maybe around the time of Obama? I feel like he was the one behind the winning 50 state strategy but I’m going purely on memory here…
Edit: for the amount of brain injuries I’ve had somehow my political memory works a little too well. Dean was indeed chair of the DNC before Obama became president and pursued a 50 state strategy to get Obama elected.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty-state_strategy
(Under mixed results)
Yeah, they didn't totally ditch him. But they didn't seem to want to allow him to be democratically [...] elected as a candidate.
Yeah. It’s curious. If they really didn’t want him around they wouldn’t of made him dnc chair. I also think the democrats of the late 2000s were slightly less corrupt than todays democrats, which isn’t saying much.
I was a Dean guy. :(
My cousin and I drove 6 hours to one of his rallys right before the Pyawww thing happened.
can you imagine being in the crowd and then seeing the news about BYAAH the next day?
It's wasn't the scream, it was the concerted gas lighting from the media that sunk Dean. It could have been anything. The establishment didn't want him, so they manufactured a reason to end his campaign.
Yes, but it worked. Trump actually did awful shit, and it did not. That's what I can't get past.
GW Bush killed a million people and the media treats him like a sweet grandpa.
I memby
...or the inability to spell potato
Covfefe
Or too little
BYAAAAAAHHHH!
We're gonna go to New York. We're gonna go to Vermont. We're gonna go to Oregon. We're gonna go to Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. We're going to Cancun for spring break. We're gonna go to Montreal. We're going to Vancouver. I'm going all over the world. And then, I'm coming all the way to Wateron DC to take back the White House....pyahhhh💪👉