The Ultimate Test of the Democratic Party's ‘50-State’ Strategy

In late September, Dean is scheduled to travel to Alaska, a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat president since Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964, but one in which Obama has said he will campaign. “The New York Times made fun of me when I went to Alaska three years ago,” Dean said. “Now here we are, on the verge of picking up a Senate seat and possibly even picking up Alaska’s three electoral votes. So it’s astonishing what you can do when you show up in these places and pay attention to people.”

DNC’s Dean Facing the Ultimate Test of ‘50-State’ Strategy