Newly appointed DNC Chair Tim Kaine has released a video where he responds to about a dozen questions submitted by citizens. Credit where due: not one but two of the selected questions concern the 50-state strategy advocated and pursued by Former DNC Chair Howard Dean. Those questions come at the 11:12 and 23:00 points in the video below:
In response to both questions Kaine talks about all the ways that Virginia has gone from red to blue over the last few years and gives credit to Dean for this. I see it more as going from reddish-purple to bluish-purple but okay. He says the 50-state strategy was "really important." Good. He says "Its success speaks for itself." Yes.
But in both answers he says they won't being doing exactly what they did during the last 4 years. Kaine: "You never should just do what you did yesterday" and "We may do it in different ways." More specifically, Virginia is not, say, Idaho and therefore: "I won't say it should apply equally in every state." But we will continue it in "new and exciting ways."
So, bottom line: it was really important and successful and we'll be doing something that we'll call a 50-state strategy but it won't look like it did before. Because "you never should just do what you did yesterday" even if what you did yesterday worked really well.
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