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National: Howard Dean

March 6, 2009 - 06:52 pm
NEWS FEED: Politico

Dean for surgeon general?

By Ben Smith,Carrie Budoff Brown

Howard Dean has said he doesn't want the job. But that hasn't stopped admirers from pushing his name.

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March 3, 2009 - 01:45 pm
NEWS FEED: Politico

New praise for HHS appointee

By Alexander Burns

Howard Dean endorses Kathleen Sebelius for HHS but says, 'I would've liked to have done it."

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February 8, 2009 - 10:03 pm
NEWS FEED: New York Observer

After Daschle, No Obvious Choices for Obama

By Steve Kornacki

In the wake of Tom Daschle's implosion, media speculation on Barack Obama's next nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has focused mainly on four names. Three of them are (fairly) logical candidates for the job. One is not.

The name that doesn't belong is Howard Dean's. The former DNC chairman remains a beloved figure among his party's grassroots and his background as a physician and as a governor who pursued health care reform in his state would seem to make him a decent HHS selection. Plus, he'd bring an outsize profile to the job, one equal to the massive task - overseeing the administration's efforts to deliver universal health insurance - that will come with the HHS perch.  read more »

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January 21, 2009 - 05:55 pm
NEWS FEED: Daily Kos

RIP 50-state strategy

By kos

Bowers:

In short, the DNC will be moving away from the long-term, decentralized, fifty-state strategy of Howard Dean's tenure, and toward serving as a short-term, centralized re-election effort for President Obama in 2012.  It will continue the move away from paid media ushered in by Howard Dean, maintain or increase the amount of resource expenditures in most states, and the number of states it targets will be a broader effort than the narrow focus we saw in 2001-2004 (but more narrow than 2005-2008). However, it will return to the traditional role of the DNC as a supplement for the sitting President's re-election campaign, rather than as the long-term, localized institution building operation that is was from 2005-2008.

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Wed, 05/14/2008 - 09:09

Obama's Audacity Of Style

By Reid Wilson

In the pursuit of an image that transcends partisanship, Barack Obama is walking a fine line between building a new politics with himself atop the pedestal and engaging in the old-school, bare-knuckle politics it takes to win a modern campaign.

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Sun, 04/20/2008 - 12:44

Dean to superdelegates: Do as I say, not as I do

By James W. Pindell, Politicker.com Editor

DENVER -- Late last week Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean demanded that undecided superdelegates make up their minds soon on whether to support Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president.

His intended message: voters in late states should have the final say in who will become the Democratic presidential nominee and not a group of party insider.

But in truth Dean's message was "do what I say, not as I do".

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