RNC Preibus wants another term to "finish the job"

[Ardbeg... innit]

Wow, never thought I'd say this, but, Good Luck! Doing a fine job so far.

Priebus to seek second term as RNC chair, says he has the votes

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Friday that he will seek another two-year term for his current job and says he has far more support than he needs to keep it.

In an e-mail to supporters, Priebus said he has commitments from 130 of 168 members. He only needs the support of a majority of members — 85.

“When I return the week after Thanksgiving, I intend to make an official announcement that I am running to continue on as your Chairman, but I wanted to let you all know first,” Priebus said.

He added: “Also, I am humbled by the over 130 RNC Members who I have talked to who have pledged their support and public endorsement for me to continue on as Chairman so we can finish the job that we started and continue to grow our Party.

Priebus was seen as likely to stay on board and hasn’t seen any tough challengers step forward, despite a disappointing performance for the party on Election Day last week.

[Chicago Jake]

The tone of your post sounds like you think the RNC is a flaming disaster. Sure, they did not retake the presidency, but they only lost by a few percentage points in the popular vote, and they retained control of the House. It hardly counts as a "burn down the building and start from the ground up" situation.

[Merlot Joe]

On a scale of 1 to 10 I think his job performance was a 6. Can he do a good enough job to keep the house over the next two years? I don't know. If things start moving the demos will get the credit.

The other big question is, who in the hell do they have to take his place?

[Ardbeg... innit]

They retained control of the House by redistricting, the total popular vote for members of the house was a Dem plurality by about 0.5%. That just shows how important control of the state legislatures are after the census comes in.

As for the (Edited) Presidential (end edit) popular vote, it was a smaller margin than in 08, but still a larger margin than either of the W wins (when the end of the Democratic Party was predicted).

Given the expectations of last spring, that is a Republican Senate majority and a Republican White House... if you think he is the man for that job at the top of the RNC, thats fine with me.

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Nov 19, 2012 12:49:16 GMT -6 Chicago Jake said:

The tone of your post sounds like you think the RNC is a flaming disaster. Sure, they did not retake the presidency, but they only lost by a few percentage points in the popular vote, and they retained control of the House. It hardly counts as a "burn down the building and start from the ground up" situation.

Yeah, it's definitely a real head-scratcher when you read someone's extremist over-reaction to something done by a politician ... innit?