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All signs point to my preferred presidential candidate (that’d be Howard Dean) taking the chairmanship of the Democratic party — which, as near as I can tell, is pretty revolutionary. Unfortunately, a lot of the commentary runs something like this:
I’ve heard a number of places — not the least of which was a DNC letter in my own in-box — that Terry McAuliffe has been taking credit for an increase in small-donor “grass-roots” donations.
That may be. But I’d like to say here that I donated to the DNC _in spite of_, not because of, Terry McAuliffe’s leadership.
The Democrats pretty much got what they deserved for running such a terrible campaign. Howard Kurtz of the Washinton Post says it’s not any one person’s fault:
To blame a midterm election loss on any one person is, of course, the worst form of scapegoating. Max Cleland, Erskine Bowles, Walter Mondale, Jeanne Shaheen, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, [...]