There is an uncommon amount of interest in an election this weekend whose entire voting body is 447 people. The election is for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, the governing body of the national Democratic Party.
It’s a boring job. The party’s chair is supposed to raise money, oversee the practical nuts-and-bolts of the party’s electoral machinery and help strategize on candidates and expenditures for upcoming races.
And yet CNN hosted a live, 90-minute debate Wednesday night with eight candidates on stage — eight candidates vying for the attentions not of a state’s primary voters or a national electorate but rather 447 professional Democrats for whom what was said on CNN will likely matter very little.
Depressed and clear-thinking Democrats who managed to stay awake through the proceedings — and I congratulate them if they did — surely saw nothing to rouse them from their despair. There was a sitcom element to the proceedings, featuring as they did an overly well-spoken millennial from Ohio, a manic pixie dream girl from Idaho and a clueless older guy lawyer from DC who seemed to have wandered in from the hotel bar.
http://nypost.com/2017/02/23/democrats-are-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-of-wannabe-party-chairs/
It’s a boring job. The party’s chair is supposed to raise money, oversee the practical nuts-and-bolts of the party’s electoral machinery and help strategize on candidates and expenditures for upcoming races.
And yet CNN hosted a live, 90-minute debate Wednesday night with eight candidates on stage — eight candidates vying for the attentions not of a state’s primary voters or a national electorate but rather 447 professional Democrats for whom what was said on CNN will likely matter very little.
Depressed and clear-thinking Democrats who managed to stay awake through the proceedings — and I congratulate them if they did — surely saw nothing to rouse them from their despair. There was a sitcom element to the proceedings, featuring as they did an overly well-spoken millennial from Ohio, a manic pixie dream girl from Idaho and a clueless older guy lawyer from DC who seemed to have wandered in from the hotel bar.
http://nypost.com/2017/02/23/democrats-are-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-of-wannabe-party-chairs/
