Interesting note in the shift that is in the pipeline among many foundaitons to move the game back to DC. 

Many foundations shifted the organizing and capacity to the states during the Bush years. Now there is a HOPE that the progressives can go on the march in DC and fix many of the things we have been blocked on for 8 years.

The result will be an increased push of resources back inside the beltway to move policy.

I am not sure that that is a wise move. The landscape for influence is not going to be geographically confined as it was in 2000. The networked Obama/Biden administration may be just as influenced by conference calls and emails conversaitons across the country as they are form across town.   Adddtionally, abandoning the state capacity in the middle of this economic downturn will amplify the crash of the distributed network in the field.

I expect there to be a stuggle for the old guard to reposition old politicing in the DC power halls as the answer but I also expect the connected campaign culture and operatives that are going to be coming to town to be less influenced be glad handing in the halls.

Change is not just the campagin slogan and I am not hearing lots of advocacy and campaign groups really listening and reassessing strategy with the new administration.  This is not 1992.

Hopefully, the funders don't lock into a strategies prematurely as all the DC groups lobby for bigger slices of the pie.