Reply #22: This is what the triangulating and bipartizaning

[Jakes Progress]

president and his advisors don't get. It's not the avid progressives only that they are turning off. Sure, I'll likely still put in hours for the campaign (probably not as enthusiastically) but besides the hard work by the active progressives the other thing that got Obama elected (besides the worst possible slate the republicans could find) was millions of new young voters. They were energized by thinking that their vote would bring change in America, that Obama was going to be able to make Washington work. People here can say their were naive or stupid, but that is what motivated them to vote. And now old hands telling them that they were stupid or naive or that things will take time are just ways of telling them that they were right the before - that their voting doesn't make any difference. It will be hard to convince them to turn out in sufficient numbers next time. They could take losing a battle or two. They won't settle for not fighting for it. They would probably support someone who fought and lost, but not someone who gives up quietly.