Howard Dean visits Obama office in Las Vegas....what a busy, happy office.

[madfloridian]

Dean thanks volunteers in Las Vegas

There is an audio of Dean's remarks to the volunteers and a call or two he took part in. Sounds like they all had fun.



Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean greets volunteers at the Las Vegas Obama-Biden headquarters Thursday morning.

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean stopped by the Barack Obama-Joe Biden headquarters in Las Vegas today to thank volunteers and to remind supporters that the race isn’t over.

“We can’t win without you,” Dean told volunteers. “This is exactly how you win; by doing it one phone call at a time, one door at a time ... Early voting is a major part of our strategy and so far the results have been extraordinary, but we still have 12 days to go and we can’t let up.”

Dean stressed to volunteers that the election isn’t over until Election Night and that a key party strategy is winning the Western states.

“We do believe the road to the White House leads to the West. That’s why I am here. It’s why Obama is coming back. I’ve always thought this, since the day I took this job, that if you want to win, you cannot give up the West,” Dean said.

Dean said Democratic values are more "western" than Republicans think.

He has said often that they feel there is a new map out west.

Add it all up, and Democrats hope a new day is dawning. "We intend to contest Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada as a unit next time in the presidential because we think we can win there," Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told U.S. News. Dean's theory is that, with a combined total of 29 electoral votes, those four states would make it unnecessary for the Democrats to win Florida, with 27 electoral votes, which they have lost in the last two down-to-the-wire presidential elections. "Bill Clinton won every single one of those states at one time or another," Dean added

Big brother.
Dean said the key to the Democratic resurgence lies in what he sees as the rightward, interventionist shift of the national GOP. "The Republican Party has become the big-brother party, and this is a very libertarian part of the country. ... don't believe it's the government's place to tell them what to do with their personal lives, and this is a government that specializes in telling people what to do in their personal lives.

That looks like a happy office. I enjoyed hearing Dean on Ed Schultz yesterday from Vegas. He sounded happy and upbeat, and Ed gave him some kudos for the 50 state plan.

[madfloridian]

1. I was just thinking...

about a post at Daily Kos yesterday giving kudos to Howard Dean. It was top of recommended for ages.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/22/1369/6065

It reminded me that anything posted about Dean here at DU is almost ignored most times. I guess it is the difference in the sites. :shrug:

He's going to ND after he goes to CA, on the road. I say kudos.