Howard Dean has finally come up with a rejoinder to the old Will Rogers line about the Democratic Party and its inability to organize itself properly.
“The answer is not to organize ourselves better. The answer is to cooperate better, because we’re never going to have a top-down model. So I finally, after all these years, accepted the idea that we need to work with who we are,” the former Vermont governor and ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee said.
Dean is testing that cooperate-better adage as the chairman of a private company that is serving as a data exchange for Democratic campaigns, committees and left-leaning groups. The company, Democratic Data Exchange, is the upshot of several election cycles in which Democrats felt they were well behind Republican counterparts in reaching out to their voters and persuading those on the fence to join their cause.
