Andrew Golis

is not very exciting. But for anyone who’s trying to keep up, the candidates for Chairman of the DNC (Democratic National Committee) went to the “western regional” meeting to pitch themselves for the job. CNN has a good, simple, completely useless article about what “happened.” As usual, MyDD has an extremely partisan (to Dean) and shockingly thorough account of the events.

The candidates are competing for the votes of 400some votes of voting “DNC members” who are usually state party officials and DC insider types. The vote is held on Feb. 11th and consists of a series of elimination rounds (whoever has the fewest votes is done) to narrow the field to two at which point whoever has more votes wins. So it’s not just about getting votes, but second place, third place votes etc.

Dean still seems to be on a good path. Last week’s series of endorsements from party officials in many states (including the south) got some people who are anti-Dean a little worried and talkative, but no opposition seems to have really united to challenge his front-runner status.

UPDATE: A good, if uneventful, article from Fineman in Newsweek about the lackluster second-coming of the stop-Dean forces in the Dem Party.

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