A DNC task force after the 2014 midterm wipeout called for urgent action at the state-party level. The task force recommended a "three-cycle plan" with allied groups that "wins back legislative chambers in order to prepare for redistricting efforts." It is, in essence, an attempt to revive Dean's "50-state strategy" of building up local parties. That was controversial at the time, but a study of the 2006 midterm election by Harvard's Elaine Kamarck argued that in congressional districts where the DNC had paid organizers in place for at least a year, the Democratic vote was more than double what it would have been.