Ok, this one is for fun.
I suspect many people know he ran in the 2008 primaries, but like everybody got squeezed out in the clash of the titans.
So let's go back.
In 1994 Senator Dodd lost the vote for Senate Minority Leader by a single vote, to Senator Daschle. The Senate caucus went with the moderate low-key Daschle over the more liberal and more fight-y Dodd. (Amusingly it was tied 23-23 and the deciding vote was cast by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who switched to the Republicans soon after.)
The POD, then, is that Dodd wins the vote. He's up against the height of the Republican Revolution, albeit he's facing off against Majority Leader Dole instead of Gingrich in the House.
Can a determined Democratic Senate caucus stop the Republican agenda dead in its tracks? And does this give Dodd a high enough profile over the comparatively struggling Clinton White House and VP Gore for Dodd to run in and win in the 2000 primaries?
I suspect many people know he ran in the 2008 primaries, but like everybody got squeezed out in the clash of the titans.
So let's go back.
In 1994 Senator Dodd lost the vote for Senate Minority Leader by a single vote, to Senator Daschle. The Senate caucus went with the moderate low-key Daschle over the more liberal and more fight-y Dodd. (Amusingly it was tied 23-23 and the deciding vote was cast by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who switched to the Republicans soon after.)
The POD, then, is that Dodd wins the vote. He's up against the height of the Republican Revolution, albeit he's facing off against Majority Leader Dole instead of Gingrich in the House.
Can a determined Democratic Senate caucus stop the Republican agenda dead in its tracks? And does this give Dodd a high enough profile over the comparatively struggling Clinton White House and VP Gore for Dodd to run in and win in the 2000 primaries?