Demos preparing comeback in La. - Beaucoup Blues (Times Picayune)

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http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/library-84/1122098264188150.xml?nola

They meet in N.O. to plan new strategy

Democrats from Louisiana's northernmost hamlets as well as from posh suburbs and troubled city neighborhoods in and around New Orleans gathered Friday to plan what many acknowledge is, for now, an impossible dream: a nationwide Democratic takeover.

"This is not an instant-gratification game. This is a long-term investment plan to enhance our own brand ID," said Jim Dean, chairman of the grassroots group Democracy for America. Dean is the brother of former Democratic presidential candidate and current Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

Many of those gathered at the Hilton Garden Inn on Gravier Street were hard-core enthusiasts for Howard Dean, volunteers who had come reluctantly to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's side in 2004, and who still mourn the former Vermont governor's demise in the primaries. They paid $15 to $25 to attend the Friday's conference in New Orleans, dubbed "Beaucoup Blues." For an extra $25, they got to schmooze with Jim Dean at a Magazine Street bar Thursday night.

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1. Good!

The DNC has written off Louisiana the past few elections!


Anyone else love Blanco?

Anyone else here LSU fans?

Feel free to stop by over at http://www.tigersmack.com, it even has a politics board. We could use some DU'ers over there because the Neo-Con Nazis are running the good posters off that board

[funkybutt]

2. Is that your board?

I stopped over there and it appeared to be infested with right wingers. Although, I'm not surprised since it's an LSU site.

[Blue Dawg]

3. Dean's be doing a darn good job...

...I have to say I expect him to scare off “blue dogs” such as myself and socially moderate Dems, but in fact he’s been really welcoming and tolerant seeing the party as a broad coalition and not a narrow sect, it reminds me of why I liked him early on in the presidential race, back in 2003.

He’s been helping to revitalise the Democratic Party across the country and in states like Mississippi and elsewhere where Democrat have effectively given up over the last few years.

He is IMHO laying the ground work for us to become a truly national party again, the solution isn’t the DLC’s regimented, focus group politics, nor the peacenik, socialism of the far left… its about building a broad progressive coalition, unified around a vision of social justice and decency towards one another.

Sorry to rant, but I think “the boy done good”.