Simon Rosenberg
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"Simon Rosenberg" is the founder of the New Democrat Network, an organization formerly allied with the Democratic Leadership Council, and was a candidate for the Democratic National Committee Chair in 2005.

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Creating a winning coalition is the art of presidential politics and keeping everybody happy is hard and it's the core thing we do in coalitions.

It isn't easy, and certainly there is going to be great debate in our party over where we need to go.

By 2008, 35% of all television viewers and 50% of registered voters will have digital video recorders. And 100% of them will skip political ads. So we'll have to talk to people in smarter ways.

The emergence of the Latino population is creating a different politics in the 21st Century. It is really about a strategy. It is about how each party understands this critical part of America.

It's OK that we don't agree with one another. We're offering options about how to get to a better path in Iraq, and that's how politics works.

This new media becomes much more important to us because conservatives have been more dominant in traditional media. This stuff becomes really critical for us.

It's a risky thing for them.

This should be a great cause for alarm in the progressive family.

[Rank-and-file Democrats] want the Washington party to fight every day on every issue and to fight more effectively and better, ... The truth is, it's going to be hard to fight and win every battle. . . . It's finding that right balance that's going to be the art of keeping our coalition together over the next few years.