Posted on 06/30/2017 4:06:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Howard Dean: Losing Four Special Elections Isn’t a ‘Bad Sign’ for Democrats
BY: Cameron Cawthorne June 30, 2017 5:17 pm
Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean on Friday downplayed Democrats losing four special elections by saying that it was not a "bad sign."
MSNBC host Katy Tur pointed out that Democrats have not won a special congressional election over Republicans this year, and asked Dean whether they should be focusing on policy agenda ideas and trying to fix Obamacare.
"I don't think the special elections are a bad sign," Dean said. "Here we take four very Republican districts and come within four or six points of all of the seats where we were behind 20 in the last election, so I'm not concerned about that."
"I think the special elections have actually worked well for us, proving we can in fact win in red districts, but just not quite as red as the ones we've been in," Dean added.
Dean's diagnosis of the Democrats losing the special elections is similar to that of Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez, who tried to downplay the losses because they were Republican districts.
"I know folks were a little disappointed earlier this week. There were some elections in Georgia and South Carolina that we didn't quite get to the finish line on, but you know what folks? Those are beet red districts," Perez said last week at the Texas AFL-CIO Convention in Houston.
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Beet red? He is lying.
The last district was one by Trump by 1%.
The special election increased the win to 3.5%.
Every coach who loses a game attempts to spin it as a positive. You still lost.
But Howard Dean continuing to steal oxygen IS a bad sign for Demonicrats.
Born under a bad sign.
...however, having Howard Dean as a member of your party is very, very bad sign.
Sounds good, Howard, keep on losing.
Howard Dean. Lying his Ossoff since 2004.
I ashamed this guy is a doctor.
Ok Perez you are saying these are Republican leaning areas, so it was a tough battle.
Ok, so based on that, why did Democrats spend somewhere around $50 million in a special election he expected they would lose???
His comments make no sense given the enormous resources poured into Ossoff in Georgia. Spend all that money so they can claim they didnt lose it by as much as they could have??? Really?????
Give them a cheer, Howard.
Once again...How much money did the dems flush down the toilet?
Howard, do you suffer from being red color blind as well as being an idiot?
eeeeeeeeeeeeHAA.........moron
they hope to pick up 4 NJ seats & 6 NY seats in 2018 based on how well HRC did there / Trump did not do well.
Its a good start!
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