and replace her with Dean.

recent years who truly understands this.

The primary benefit of Dean's approach was that it presumed that progressive ideas could sell anywhere, and that it was part of the mandate of a national party not to concede any race anywhere.

Amen.

Sidelining Dean may have made sense in 2009, but by the day after the 2010 mid-terms he should have been welcomed with open arms & tails firmly between legs.

a 50 state strategy is exactly what we need imo

of saving your second best hoard of corporate money for races based on statistics, there is no doubt that the best friend of the GOP outside of maniacal plutocrats is the Democratic Party leadership itself. Also weaker efforts at reversing gerrymandering despite our second best more modest(conflicted?) efforts. Weaker to non resistance to crooked election practices and probably aching to get rid of mass turnout people efforts that involve dependence on the unwashed. Not wanting to grow the party leadership beyond the control of the current power clique.

Even more, it is plainly a governing strategy way beyond that fake, pathetically irrational non-partisanship slop they try to pass as the conventional wisdom of compromise and consensus. Andrew Cuomo, sired by a liberal governor who lost power and was convinced he had no permission to run by such leaders, such rationales, has run the state in a shrewd and competent fashion based on the parity game.

To protect the GOP. To at the same time encourage a monolithic blandness so the current Dems might be kept in check from going majority progressive and thus not really have to represent public desires and expectations for truly major needs. To avoid blame for falling short, to dole out increments to avoid revolt, to dissipate blame. To serve the money that is the undoubted bedrock of the institutions "competed" for AGAINST the main political foe- Them, the People, Forget the fact that the insane, monster recruiting GOP is grabbing for the crown of tyranny on the brink of their own irrelevance to the planet. The Dems continue to help foster the image of some mythical legitimate GOP party even as the sane flee that horror with no sane party to welcome them aboard.

Bi-partisanship helps keep the American people divided as the parties unite mainly for the interest of the crazed monied minority in an economic system equally dysfunctional. It is like watching a never decided tennis match where only one side is a good sport and keeps helping the cheater back on his feet.