The NY Times has an article on Dean's Quiet Leadership of the DNC. The picture painted is of a nose-to-the-grindstone guy, neither a big strategic thinker like Brown nor a major fund raiser like McAuliffe. Dean is pretty much mum about the primary schedule confusion, he has a single focus on the 50 state program and uses the organizers in Alaska is an example of "chance favoring the prepared mind." He is getting ready to move on when the presidential comes in.

The article ends with some tidbits from this month's FEC filing. The DNC has about $3.25 million in the bank ($2 million in debt), more than a million less than they had last month. That is barely a third of what the committee had going into 2004. The RNC has over $16 million on hand, five times as much as the DNC, and no debt.

UPDATE: DNC's September filing.

Interesting article in the NY Times by Adam Nagourney on Democratic GOTV. The article is largely sourced from an interview with Dean. Dean addresses some of the questions people here have had regarding why the GOP 72 hour program is considered superior to overall Democratic GOTV.

But in an interview, Mr. Dean said that Republicans continued to have a clear superiority in identifying voters they can persuade to vote for their candidates and then getting them to cast ballots.

"I think we've closed the gap, but I don't think we are there yet," Mr. Dean said. "It's going to take some time. I think we could match them in 2008, if everything goes right, in voter turnout."