The votes are in, and we have a winner for the job that only a masochist would want after the Democrats got stomped in the November elections: chair of the Democratic National Committee.
The man who now becomes the captain of the foundering DNC ship is Minnesota state party chair Ken Martin, who won on the first ballot by 246 ayes out of the 428 members who voted.
Martin is not a household name, but he’s well-known in political circles:
Mr. Martin is a party insider who knows his way around the D.N.C.
He has led his state party since 2011 and is a vice chairman of the national party. He also leads the Association of State Democratic Committees, a body that lobbies for state parties within the national committee — and a power center that has irritated other D.N.C. officials, but one that his allies see as a sign of his strengths.
As our Becky Noble wrote,…
