"Steven P Rosenthal", born January 21, 1953 is a longtime labor and political strategist based in Washington, DC. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in a union household. The New York Times has described Rosenthal as one of the Democratic Party's “smartest and most influential strategists”.

In 2003, Rosenthal was one of the founders and Chief Executive Officer of America Coming Together (ACT), a voter mobilization project aimed at defeating incumbent Republican president George W. Bush. ACT raised and spent over $142 million and built one of the largest voter mobilization campaigns in Democratic history. In a 2004 Washington Post article about Steve Rosenthal's leadership of ACT, Donna Brazile, Al Gore’s former campaign manager, was quoted praising Rosenthal by saying, “He's the last great hope of the Democratic Party." Charlie Cook described ACT’s work in the National Journal: “Democrats, chiefly through America Coming Together, mounted what was not only the most sophisticated get-out-the-vote operation in the party’s history, but it was probably the best field work by a factor of at least 10.”

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The bottom line is that it is very hard to raise the money you need to sustain an organization like this year-round. It is very hard to generate interest in the donor community.

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