"Dean's selling point, according to several of his allies, is that he could leverage his popularity among liberals to raise money and employ his experience as a former governor to whip the party into shape.
Dean remains popular with several wings of the party that will have a say before the chair election. The political director of a top labor union said Dean's name was mentioned often by labor leaders at Wedneday's AFL-CIO executive council meeting in Washington.
But AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, who is himself up for re-election and who is not a historical ally of Dean, told ABC News that "there are a number of good names being mentioned, including Dean..."
There is also speculation of a Dean-Simon L. Rosenberg pairing:
"Several top party strategists are in the mix. Simon L. Rosenberg, the president of the New Democrat Network, has the support of many of younger democratic fund-raisers and is seen by some as a hands-on manager who could correct the party's problems over the long-term. Some Democrats partial to Rosenberg beleive he'd make a great behinds the scenes faciliator for a party chair like Dean.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=244985Good overall article on all the potential candidates.