You still need to count every vote one at a time," said a progressive operative.
"Assuming that the White House is good and frames things right, you can get people really excited and make the Republicans look like absolute dog shit," said Mike Lux, a longtime progressive operative who served Obama during his presidential transition.
More specifically, the instigators of this mess, the public sector union managements and their progressive political operatives, will struggle against their most existential threat to date.
Soon after two Silicon Valley billionaires launched an online initiative to rejuvenate the Democratic Party Monday night, veteran progressive political operatives began mocking it as an out-of-touch vanity project.
To Jeff Hauser, a veteran progressive Democratic operative, the takeaway for Democrats is clear: Don't waver on climate change to appeal to conservative voters.
"There's a desire among Democrats to describe their positions in a way that gets 80percentt approval, unobjectionable and something people won't criticize," said Jeff Hauser, a veteran progressive Democratic operative.
Coming less than two weeks before Aug. 2, the date by which the Treasury has said the debt ceiling must be raised, the spots clearly indicate what progressive-minded operatives see as a pressing challenge going forward: to paint Republicans as "recklessly risking default... to protect tax breaks for millionaires, oil companies and CEOs who fly around in corporate jets".
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's broad new debt reduction proposal has, at least momentarily, managed to placate a community of progressive activists, Democratic operatives and congressional offices who have grown increasingly despondent over the course of his presidency.
Female preponderance is especially evident in progressive cases necessitating operative treatment.
A progressive activist and political operative, Caldwell has worked on numerous campaigns, including Michael Dukakis, Ann Richards, Doug Wilder and an independent campaign to defeat Oliver North.
