Aaron has a good point that the DNC chair himself is a white Christian, while the RNC chair is Jewish. It is a bit ironic. It doesn't matter that the population of Dean's state is mostly white; he was not talking about Vermont, but about the Democratic party. I don't want to speak for Dean, and I don't particularly care for him as a "spokesman" for anything; he is a pro-business centrist who has learned how to tweak leftist rhetoric to appeal to certain types. I will say this, though: Republicans and evangelical Christians make strange bedfellows.

However, Aaron's post represents a misreading of statistics. Women +5, African-Americans +2... these figures are (presumably) comparisons of votes for Bush from 2000 to 2004, and they don't show that the Democratic party is "not very welcoming." The CNN poll doesn't show what the figures for Kerry (comparing 2004 to 2000) are, but clearly in 2004 Kerry has the edge over Bush in the African-American vote, the Asian-American vote, the Latino vote, low-income vote, and a slight edge in the female vote. I'm just setting the record straight on this poll, though; I don't agree with Dean about the Democratic party being "more welcoming." I think both major parties would like to welcome the votes of minorities and the poor, but neither of them really want to do anything for them.