This is a great idea and i can’t believe this wasn’t in place before. My only concern is Repubs hacking it, so make it as secure as possible and FFS people don’t click on links in emails! If it looks fishy it is fishy!
I feel great about this with Howard Dean in charge.
How crazy is it that this guy’s career as a politician ended because he made a weird noise?
I just… look at Trump… sigh, the world is stupid.
Do I like Howard Dean?
YEEEEEAAAGH!
Having worked the voter info in both the Obama and the Clinton campaigns I can say that whatever the Clinton campaign was doing in 2016 was a mess. They had us calling the same people 6 or more times. It was one of the many death by a thousand cuts for her.
Put away the keyboard and back away. Your text to Emoji ratio has gotten a little out of hand. 
He’s trustworthy, and the right man for the job.
As a Dem, I notice how I’ve been dropped like a hot rock after campaigns. The lack of coordination and ongoing contact/planning is crippling.
Go Dean!
Quaint times indeed
As remote as the 16th century
The one that got away…
Party officials say the new model still allows state parties to withhold certain data from the central exchange if they choose and to sell their files to campaigns. And Democrats at party headquarters and in the states say Dean’s participation helped allay concerns.
This seems short-sighted on the part of state parties. Their ultimate goal should not be raising money, but getting Democrats elected. As such, they should share all their data.
I think people choose to remember it this way, but recall that the “Dean Scream” was part of his speech after not winning the Iowa Caucus. The tide had turned when Bin Laden put out a video and then Dems all decided they needed someone with more Foreign Policy heft (john Kerry) to head the ticket.
The “scream” didn’t help but I think the writing was on the wall before that.
I’m excited he’s back in the fold.
He didn’t get away. They marooned him.
While feeling a bit nostalgic for the halcyon era of Dean running the DNC, I also applaud his return to a prominent spot as a sound move. Campaigns are as much data driven as they are anachronistic images of pounding pavement and shaking hands. In effect, Dean brings the knowledge and charisma to get the two arms of a modern campaign working in unison.
hear hear
Spot-on… But they laugh at us for reminding them of that, unfortunately there’s a group of ambitious media-managing “Democrats” who are all proud when someone compares them to Lee Atwater.
Social media and the web have provided revolutionary new avenues for campaigning that don’t cost big bucks and doesn’t go into the pockets of the media creeps who hire these wannabe Roves between campaign cycles.
Is it any wonder they still throw all that money at those worthless attack ads? Then the media poses it in retrospect as if that is what won or lost the day?
They will scream bloody murder when anyone defies their desperate pretension that that is the ONLY way to campaign. Those of us who know better and express it are labeled naive.
When we figure out that is the real scam underway, and most of those ads fall on deaf or fed-up ears by the time the election rolls around, maybe things will change, but for now, with Citizens United filling greedy media moguls’ coffers with literal payoff slush funding, a big slice of each and every penny we give to campaigns goes directly through some campaign media boss making sure their own favorite moguls get the lion’s share.
If this offends you, you are probably one of them. Deal with it.
Dear Howard Dean,
Please use your indoor voice when placed in front of news cameras, and you’ll be fine. I have studied numerical analysis, and nothing I learned would cause me to shout in front of others.
Best,
Shartiblartfat
Taking the high road is laudable, but punching back is sometimes required! When the Republicans unleash a scurrilous attack ad; don’t weep and wail, rather punch the motherfucker’s lights out!
At first glance. the idea of organizing a nation-wide database system for campaigns is a transparently obvious step — just common sense. As a practical matter, doing this is probably the political equivalent of bearding cats. Good on the Dems for doing this.