If that's Ellison, I'm all in!

What specific skill set does Ellison bring to the job?

...how does that fit in to the job of the DNC Chair?

The consecutive losses of elections.

Or much more than the usual.

I'd also add a progressive vision that would hopefully be spread all over the US rather than the Rahm Emanuel approach to back 50/50 races. Hopefully he would be of the mind of building something all over it could pay dividends especially in areas that were forfeited by Rahm & others.

someone who isn't afraid to fight but can articulate a progressive position with a convincing differentiation understandable by the electorate.

Too much time has been wasted catering to corporatists and people only slightly removed from the republicans...

however, I also tend to agree with Howard Dean that it is a full-time job.

I also remember how well his 50 state strategy worked.

I'd like to see both of them involved.

and do the job is absurd. What ever you say about either Michael Steele or Rinse Penis, they at least were able to focus 100% on the job, unlike DWS.

I'd rather have a full-time person there, but someone who will call on the progressives in the party to help and for advice.

We could do far worse than Howard Dean and Ellison is needed right where he his. Fighting Ryan/McConnell/That Creature will be a full time and then some job.

It's like the leadership of the Democratic party is trying to out do the Republicans as the big business party.

We need to support honest & logical policies that benefit the people that voted them in rather than sell out to private corporations. All the recent Presidents are literally giving away the taxpayer money into the hands of the wealthy ruining the economy but they don't care since they'll be well compensated for it leaving it as someone else's problem in the revolving revolving door of business and government.

That kind of thing will kill the party in elections.