Friday, February 04, 2005

Let's Make It Unanimous (UPDATED)

Simon says he's out: "Activist Simon Rosenberg abandoned his bid for Democratic National Committee chairman on Friday and backed front-runner Howard Dean, moving the former presidential candidate closer to capturing the party title."-from the AP story in the Washington Post. Reuters has this roundup on the race, "Dean Poised to Be New Democratic Party Chief": "The resurgence of Dean, an early and fierce critic of President Bush during the Democratic primary campaign, comes three months after many Democrats said the November results showed the party needed a more moderate approach that could broaden its appeal in the South, Midwest and Mountain States. But Dean wooed party insiders with an aggressive campaign that promised to pump up state-based operations, energize the party's grass roots and build an army of small donors similar to the one that aided his presidential bid. "He just ran a great campaign," Rosenberg said. "They won this thing. It was not in any way handed to him." As for Fowler, "He says he will stay in the race until the Feb. 12 vote, although many Democrats expect him to call it quits before then. "We are still committed to staying in the race, we are getting a lot of private commitments," said Jamal Simmons, a Fowler spokesman. "For now, our supporters still want him in."

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