Reply #290: Dean lost votes with every election

[redqueen]

With each and every election he had to be involved in (and no, he never ousted an incumbent, ever), he lost votes to the "progressive party". Each and every time, he won by slimmer and slimmer margins.

And there are no excuses. He had no vast corporate empire fighting against him. On the contrary, he was very cozy with corporate entities during his reign. He had no massive funding from banks and their friends in the media running against him. Nope, he lost those voters himself. Not because he kept campaign promises, either. He did it by fighting against Democrats and siding with Republicans.

Progressive Democrats were so sick of the way he ran things, that with each and every election Dean was the Dem choice on, they decided that they'd rather defect to a third party and lose than vote for the Democrat on the ticket.

I guess you want to see that done on a national level again (Clinton did a good job of alienating voters as well).