{"id":571,"date":"2006-06-15T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/15\/o_say_can_you_s\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T22:35:09","slug":"o_say_can_you_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/15\/o_say_can_you_s\/","title":{"rendered":"O Say Can You See 2009?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Cillizza <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2006\/06\/dean_defends_the_50state_strat.html#comments \">had a post<\/a> yesterday about Howard Dean defending his 50-state strategy.  Interesting that the overwhelming majority of comments were in support of Dean.  Senate and House leaders think he\u2019s spending too much money on that strategy and not enough on the key \u201906 races.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Dean.  I just wish Virginia Democrats had a 100-district strategy for the General Assembly.  In 2001 and 2005, Virginians elected Democratic governors, yet in 2005, Democrats didn\u2019t even offer a candidate for the House of Delegates in 33 of the 57 districts Republicans hold.  Gov. Kaine won nine of those districts and in another seven lost by no more than 45-55.  But even in the districts less competitive than that, Dems need someone to keep the GOP honest.  While they\u2019re doing that, they might lay the groundwork to eventually win some of those seats.<\/p>\n<p>But Virginia Democrats don\u2019t think long-term.  Wish the Republicans hadn\u2019t when they had 39 members in 1991.  Or in 1995, when they had 46 members and challenged all but 15 seats.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could see evidence of a long-range plan to challenge more seats.  If anyone does, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Cillizza had a post yesterday about Howard Dean defending his 50-state strategy. Interesting that the overwhelming majority of comments were in support of Dean. Senate and House leaders think he\u2019s spending too much money on that strategy and not enough on the key \u201906 races. I agree with Dean. I just wish Virginia Democrats&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/15\/o_say_can_you_s\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}