As I've said earlier, now that Dean appears the odds-on favorite for DNC Chair (I'm cautious, I was sure Dean was gonna win once before and look what happened) I have mixed feelings. I'd rather see President Dean than Chairman Dean.
This article oversimplifies too much. There's far more to the internal dynamics of the Democratic Party, far too many factions and players and poterntial candidates positioning themselves, than a simple Dean vs. Clinton model can illustrate. Yet there is a sort of meta-factionalism of inside vs. outside that this roughly illustrates.
Most interesting - this section openly expresses the real fear that the Dean movement has inspired:
One group clearly nostalgic for the Clintons, however, is the Democrats’ pool of high-dollar donors. As Dr. Dean’s campaign has gained momentum, a growing chorus of these donors has quietly threatened to close their checkbooks.
"A lot of the people who write the big checks are not happy about the Dean situation," said supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis, who backed Congressman Martin Frost’s failed campaign for chairman. "I think the party should be more centrist."
In an odd complaint, Mr. Catsimatidis lamented the fact that donors had been excluded from the Democrats’ decision-making.
"If you look at the 400 or 500 D.N.C. members, somebody told me that only [a handful] have written a check to the Democratic Party, which is ridiculous," he said. "I mean, they’re good Democrats, but they don’t have a stake. But we who write the checks, we don’t get a vote!"
Oh, yes we do. Our checks might be SMALLER, but there are many, many MORE of them...
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