Now I have heard every thing, but his takes the cake. I guess the only way to ensure an
insider win for the DC establishment is to activate the Macabees...
Though reeling from John Kerry's presidential election loss last month, there is momentum within the Democratic Party to stick with its current leader, Terry McAuliffe, and continue a nominating calendar that starts with the Iowa Caucuses.
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Jerry Crawford, a Des Moines lawyer and chairman of Kerry's Iowa campaign, made those comments Friday on the taping of the Iowa Public Television program "Iowa Press."
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He said there is growing sentiment within the party to ask McAuliffe to continue as head of the Democratic National Committee, or DNC.
"To be honest, most people assumed John Kerry was going to win and then he would do what every incumbent president does, which is select a chair of the DNC. The fact that he didn't, when people expected he would, kind of left the party unprepared for this transition. I just think it might make sense to ask Terry to stay on for one more year and let this process be a little more thorough," Crawford said in an interview after the Friday morning taping.
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Gordon Fisher, the chairman of the Iowa Democrats the past two years, said he personally has asked McAuliffe to stay on, but is unaware of a larger movement to get McAuliffe to stay.
One factor in Iowa's favor, though rarely discussed, is that Republicans have already set the state as the first stop in 2008. Conlin said that puts pressure on Democrats to follow suit and preserve the traditional symmetry between the parties' early nominating contests.
Once again the Republicans have decided Democratic Party strategy
Becoming a Green is looking very interesting...
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