# Who should the Democrats choose for national party chair?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-the-democrats-choose-for-national-party-chair/284772>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 14, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-the-democrats-choose-for-national-party-chair/284772 "2005-01-14T21:38:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-the-democrats-choose-for-national-party-chair/284772/81 "2005-01-30T03:35:02Z")

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To clarify a point:

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> Every time a Dem talking head appears on tv, unprepared for the right-wing noise of the day, and not on message, I blame the DNC chair, for not providing that message.  
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> Yep!

The chair (acting through the organization) should do just that, but it isn’t up to the chair to formulate what the message is, but rather to distribute it in a timely and efficient manner.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-the-democrats-choose-for-national-party-chair/284772/82 "2005-01-31T01:18:40Z")

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Update: Harold Ickes, a very prominent Democrat (former aide to Bill Clinton, and head of Hillary Clinton’s PAC), has endorsed Dean: [http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/28/democrats.chair.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/28/democrats.chair.ap/index.html)

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-the-democrats-choose-for-national-party-chair/284772/83 "2005-02-07T21:50:02Z")

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Update: The DNC Chair election is next week – and everybody but Dean has dropped out of the race. Roemer, his last opponent, bowed out today:[http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/07/democrats.chair.ap/](http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/07/democrats.chair.ap/)

So I guess the only question left to debate is, what kind of DNC Chair will Dean make?

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