Dean: Dems must work to defend '06 gains
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Democrats face a challenge defending their gains in the 2006 midterm elections because "now it's what we do and not what we say," national chairman Howard Dean told party leaders Saturday.
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Former President Bill Clinton  encouraged Democrats on Thursday to rally around the party's  leaders and said doomsayers who predict the party's demise  needed to "get a life and look at history."
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Democratic congressmen from Florida and Michigan asked national party chairman Howard Dean on Tuesday why he has been silent about punishing New Hampshire if it moves up its presidential primary while their states may lose all their delegates.
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It seemed like old times: Howard Dean lambasted the Republicans in a speech before 300 cheering supporters at a union hall on Sunday. But now he is running not for president but for the national chairmanship of the Democratic Party.
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Howard Dean, whose high-flying  presidential bid collapsed in disarray one year ago, won the  post of Democratic chairman on Saturday and will take up the  job of leading the party back from November's election losses.
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President Bush is likely to respond to recession fears much as he did on entering office in 2001, but this time around Democrats are planning to push back.
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The midterm congressional campaign year of 2006, which saw the Democrats gain 30 seats in the House and six in the Senate and take control of both chambers, was one of those big &ldquo;swing&rdquo; years that usually come along only every decade or so. Invariably, the party that is on the wrong end of one of these political shifts will gear up for a comeback in the very next round of elections.
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Anxiously watching President Bush's convention, Democratic leaders are urging John Kerry to step up his attack on the Republican incumbent before eroding approval ratings become a serious political problem.
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Regrouping after heavy election losses, the Democrats' Senate fund-raising operation has paid nearly &#36;4 million in debts and recruited senators to raise money, enlist candidates and develop strategy for 2006.
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WASHINGTON - Democrats on Sunday said President Bush's post-convention bounce was triggered by "four days of mean, vicious attacks" on John Kerry, and would be short-lived.    They vowed a nonstop, two-month offensive to make up for any lost ground as Kerry made personnel changes at the top of his campaign for the final sprint to Election Day...
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With Howard Dean rapidly gaining momentum in his bid to become national Democratic Party chairman, the spotlight is turning toward organized labor.
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After losing back-to-back presidential elections, Democratic leaders are trying to figure out how to make the party more relevant to mainstream Americans and keep it from slipping into perpetual minority-party status. And the task is daunting, many Democratic consultants and leaders agree.
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Democrats had great success in state legislative races this year, even as they performed poorly in the presidential race and campaigns for Congress. Many Democratic gains came in the heart of Republican territory.
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Bloomberg - Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Dean, former 2004 Democratic presidential candidate and current head of the Democratic National Committee, said the Iowa caucuses showed that Americans want change after ``seven years of Republican rule.''
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Howard Dean, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called on the head of New York's Republican Party to apologize or resign Wednesday over remarks linking the Democrats to a civil rights lawyer convicted of aiding terrorists.
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Democratic presidential challenger John F. Kerry begins the fall campaign on the defensive and faces the urgent necessity to make the race about the economy and other domestic
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Howard Dean has stayed oddly quiet lately while intraparty squabbling over the Democratsâ primary calendar escalates. What gives?