Supposedly Emanuel scorned the Fifty State Strategy, and was very resentful that it worked. Don't know why Obama wasn't more appreciative of Dean. His successors were disastrous.

I talked to him soon after Obama's inauguration, and he said the equivalent of "my work is done here." He explained that the Party Chair is the head of the party when we don't have the White House, but the President is the party head when we do have the White House, and that it was now (Feb. 2009) in Obama's lap. He had still held out a little hope that Obama would put him in the administration, although that hope was fading fast with Rahm whispering in Obama's ear as White House Chief of staff.

But make no mistake, Howard considered the DNC chairmanship a second fiddle when we had the presidency (which was, after all, his doing), and left on his own. No one replaced him.

New people to run for office - ANY office next November. If they find a lot of men and women newbies with impassioned causes, they make take out a lot of old-school republican incumbents!

I'm not sure he's where he used to be, but your suggestion has merit. Things likely would have gone better with him leading.

He was the best leader of dnc that I can remember having.

I listen.

For compromise and the "moral high ground."

So I guess it was a bad call by Obama. I am not sure if it was his decision or not.

who wanted Kaine to run the the DNC. Obama (and Rahm Emanuel) and Dean really did not get along very well. The second link reminds me that Obama passed him over for HHS Secretary.

https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/dean-absent-as-obama-introduces-his-pick-for-dnc-chairman/

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/01/lei-off-obama-snubs-dean-017254

I suspect millions of us share your opinion.

Let’s be honest with our selves. The dnc saw dollar signs in their eyes. Dean not only got them votes he got them cheap, $1-100 at a time. But the dnc & dcc saw the republicans getting rich off their doners and made the choice of MANA OVER PARTY.
If you don’t know one of the rules for the new “progressives/democrats” running is don’t bad mouth another dem (corporate dem) or we will pull your support. But the corporate dems don’t need the parties money so they won’t hold back on attacking the progressive candidates. Another party rule is if we give you money ‘you have to spend 75% on tv ads’. Which feeds the elite beast. It’s never been about jealousy or dislike ‘just follow the money Lebowski’...

A lot of people here enjoy losing and wanted to defeat the red state moderates he recruited across the country. Nobody cares about winning both houses of the congress in 2006 and the white house in 2008 as much as purity purges. The purge mentality was strong then.

So there were repeated calls to primary those red state losers, and then much rejoicing when they got thrown out in the tea party revolution in 2010.

Yes, a lot of DUers can't handle winning and would rather leave that to the other party.