Dean hopes to turn Nevada blue in '08 [View All]

[NVMojo]

I hope we can get rid of Jim Gibbons too!!!

March 2, 2005

Newly-elected Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Tuesday that Democrats can win red states such as Nevada by focusing on grass-roots organizing and by not being afraid to visit rural areas where the party's numbers are small.

"There's not one county in America that doesn't have a Democrat," Dean said in a press briefing during the AFL-CIO executive committee's winter meeting at Bally's.

Dean said he thinks Nevada "is a state we can win" by building true grass-roots efforts in which neighbors talk to each other about candidates -- similar to the successful volunteers President Bush's campaign amassed in 2004.

"I hope that by the '08 election, we'll have people in Nevada talking to people in Nevada," Dean said.

Bush won Nevada by 21,500 votes, or 2.5 percent, in 2004 -- about a percentage point less than his margin of victory in 2000. Dean noted former President Clinton's 1996 victory in Nevada as reason the state can turn blue.

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