Mr. Emanuel was the driving force behind the Democratic campaign to recapture the House and he hunted down candidates even in unfriendly, conservative districts to find the 15 additional seats he needed. Idealism, as the film vividly shows, took a back seat to the crass bottom-line calculation of who could win. Full Story »
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The one thing Emanuel did well in 2006 was self-promotion. Three years on, it's still working. In fact, as head of the DCCC, Emanuel recruited and backed 22 candidates for the House--sometimes against candidates with better chances of winning. Of those he promoted, only half won their primaries. Only half of those won in the general election. So the oft-repeated fiction that Emanuel was central to winning those 15 seats for the Democrats is only half true. Shame on Baker for ... More »
Hoard Dean as head of the DNC deserves as much credit as Emanuel, but rarely gets it. Party grassroots activists do as well. But we almost never do. ... More »
Very one-sided discussion of Rahm Emanuel's work on convincing Democrats to run for office and its effect. Would have been much better if it had included at least a minimal discussion of the effects within the Democratic Party on some of the people who lost nominations and on their supporters. A discussion of Christine Cegelis and her supporters would have added both context and breadth.
This is poorly balanced puff piece. In it the New York Times works to perpetuate the myth that Rahm Emanuel has been the heart and soul of the Democratic Party's resurgence. In fact, he is anything but, having fought the 50-state strategy successfully executed by former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, and backing conservative candidates who are now obstacles to President Obama's agenda.
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