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Liberal Groups Feel Welcome Again in Washington

HE PROMISED CHANGE, HOPE Seeking early support from organized labor, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addresses the Building and Construction Trades Legislative Conference meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington. The president-elect drew support from moderates, but the liberal side of the Democratic Party followed him most resoundingly: anti-war activists, labor unions, environmentalists and legions of grassroots volunteers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON -- For years, progressive groups and their causes have been in the political wilderness. Now, with Barack Obama preparing to take the White House and Democrats tightening their hold on Congress, the party's liberal constituencies can see their way to a promised land.

Their vision includes federal laws banning job discrimination against gays; expanded hate-crime laws; public land protections from logging and oil drilling; and easier union organizing of workers.