wow this is fantastic news. I was fearing that Clinton would have installed a McAuliffe clone in there should she have won, and that Obama would have rewarded Axelrod or some other loyalist to the post as well as is usually done.
I am very very glad Dean will stay. I think we need a DNC that is a little bit independent from the president. It has to be a robust organization that doesn't simply serve the re-election interests of the president in power at the moment, and work on party building.
Axelrod is more of a behind-the-scenes sorta guy.
Besides, Obama owes his candidacy to Dean's strategy, so they already have a good working relationship.
McAuliffe would have been awful! he only gets animated to fight against Democrats, and totally lays down against Republicans.
Take a look at his miserable stats from 2002 and 2004... the state parties were practically bankrupt after his colossal waste of time and resources.
Now that Dean is hiring "nosepickers" in MS, we've made that, and 49 other states, competitive again!
