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online.wsj.com — In a n article in the Wall Street Journal by reporters Laura Meckler and Peter Nicholas, Campaign for America's Future's co-director Roger Hickey was quoted as encouraging a campaign strategy that makes winning back the House and keeping the Senate a priority for Democrats and for the President. Hickey said it will be all but impossible for Mr. Obama to accomplish his goals in a second term if he doesn’t have a Democratic Congress.

“He has a rap he uses all the time on the campaign trail about this being the election that will break the stalemate in Washington. But when you look at it, it sounds like he’s just talking about getting him re-elected,” Mr. Hickey said. The better course, he said, would be for Mr. Obama to tell voters: “Send me a Congress that can do the big things that need to be done.”

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On "The Young Turks" with Cenk Uygur on Current TV, Cenk asks his Power Panel — Michael Shure, Richard Eskow and Robert Borosage — whether President Obama’s strong State of the Union showing is a sign he can win re-election in November.

“The guy I saw last night — I thought, that guy may be able to fight back and make his case and actually beat Mitt or Newt,” Cenk says.

Eskow praises Obama’s “fighting speech” but says it’s time for him to think a couple steps ahead — otherwise the GOP line will be, “Nice guy, doesn’t deliver on his promises.”

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In this 45-minute exchange on C-Span with Robb Harleston and with viewers, Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future discusses the nation's jobs crisis, the Obama administration's American Jobs Act, and the effort to build an independent progressive movement.

nationaljournal.com — Robert Borosage was interviewed by Susan Davis of the National Journal magazine. Davis wrote, "Progressive Democrats haven’t enjoyed the breadth of policy or political victories that they anticipated when President Obama took office in 2009, but they are finding new reasons to rally as a fresh crop of Republican lawmakers embarks on a policy agenda that is anathema to liberals."
Borosage said, "while we are restive about the limits of the White House’s agenda, Republicans are going to do a good job with their extremism of organizing the Left for the president."
Read the interview here: http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/robert-borosage-the-view-from-the-left-20110512

npr.org — Robert Borosage is quoted by David Welna of National Public Radio in a story about the politics around the building movement to draw down U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the death of Osama Bin Laden.

"WELNA: Many posing that question are on the political left. Robert Borosage co-directs the liberal advocacy group Campaign for America's Future. Bin Laden's death, he says, is the political opportunity for President Obama to end the war.

"Mr. ROBERT BOROSAGE (Co-director, Campaign for America's Future): I think that people inside the administration and outside the administration realize that at this point, this policy has no clothes and it's going to change."

politico.com — Robert Borosage authored this opinion piece for Politico: The gulf between the voters’ common sense and the current GOP agenda reveals one thing: Republicans are for cutting spending, not deficits. They insist on extending tax breaks for the wealthy in December, while claiming to be for deficit reduction in March. They protect billions in subsides for oil and drug companies. With rare exception, they take the pledge to never raise taxes. They are for cutting government — not getting the economy moving or the budget in better balance. They’d better hope the voters don’t figure that out.

washingtonpost.com —
Wisconsin - it's about democracy

The alternative press, the social media, MSNBC and other outposts of progressive journalism have been aflame with stories of the resistance. MoveOn, Organizing for America, the Campaign for America's Future and US Uncut, a new protest movement inspired by a recent article in the Nation, have called on activists to join. The resistance has spread. On Feb. 26, a national Day of Action is planned. The goal is to go after corporations - symbolized by Bank of America - whose tax avoidance contributes to the squeeze on basic social programs.

msnbc.msn.com — Co-director of Campaign for America's Future Robert Borosage appeared on MSNBC with host Cenk Uygyr on February 22, 2011 to discuss the spreading labor unrest in the United States and the political significance of battles over the budget.

washingtontimes.com — Obama reaches out to businesses Urges Chamber of Commerce to put money and people to work
"The president cannot make peace with a chamber committed to opposing every reform vital for the nation's economy," said Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America's Future. "But he can use this visit not to pander to the Chamber, but to challenge it — challenging it to represent the companies that are its members, not the ideologues that have been its allies."

c-spanvideo.org —

Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey is interviewed by C-Span's Pedro Echevarria about President Obama’s relationship with the progressive movement. He also responded to comments via telephone, Twitter and e-mail about strategies for economic recovery and how progressives respond to the conservatives' 2011 policy agenda.