Steve Rosenthal is a longtime labor and political strategist based in Washington, DC. The New York Times has described Steve as one of the Democratic Party's “smartest and most influential strategists”.

In 2003, Steve was one of the founders and Chief Executive Officer of America Coming Together

America Coming Together

America Coming Together was a liberal, political action, 527 group dedicated to get-out-the-vote activities. ACT did not specifically endorse any political party, but mostly worked on behalf of Democratic candidates. It was the largest 527 group in 2004 and was planning to be involved in future...

 (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

Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile is an American author, professor, and political analyst affiliated with the Democratic Party. She was the first African American to direct a major presidential campaign, for Al Gore in 2000...

, Al Gore’s former campaign manager, was quoted praising Rosenthal by saying, “He's the last great hope of the Democratic Party." Charlie Cook

Charlie Cook

Charlie Cook , originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, is an American political analyst who specializes in election forecasts and political trends. He attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He delivers election forecasts and rankings in his own publication, The Cook Political Report,...

 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.”

In his seven year tenure as political director of the AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...

, Steve designed and directed Labor ‘96, Labor ‘98, Labor 2000 and Labor 2002 which was the Labor Movement’s unified grassroots mobilization effort. Business week published an article in 1996 about Rosenthal’s effectiveness as a labor strategist asserting that Rosenthal “has injected a new sense of urgency into the AFL-CIO's rusty political machine by pulling together its far-flung operations into a coordinated national effort.” Upon leaving his post at the AFL-CIO, the New York Times reported that, “Many union leaders give Mr. Rosenthal credit for transforming organized labor’s feeble, forgettable campaign operation into one that many political analysts say is the most effective in the nation.”