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Showing Original Post only (View all)GOP wins over union members in Midwest [View all]
Last edited Sun Nov 20, 2016, 09:10 PM - Edit history (2)
In the 2010 mid term general election UNION votes were a fire wall. The losses would have been much worse. Polling showed over 80% of union households voted D!!!
Make no mistake that the household of this retired AFSCME union member (Marta was CWA for 18 years and has a pension) with a contract pension and healthcare voted for Hillary!
Maybe Hillary should have dusted off EFCA and promised to pass it that Obama never really fought for.
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JASON REED | REUTERS
In this 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama gets a hug from union worker Ghana Goodwin Dye at a rally at the world headquarters of General Motors, in Detroit. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were strongholds for Obama in 2008 and 2012, but many union voters supported President-elect Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
By Jessica Wehrman
The Columbus Dispatch Sunday November 20, 2016 10:06 AM
WASHINGTON Perhaps one of the more stunning aspects of the surprise presidential victory of Republican Donald Trump was the way that states in the industrial Midwest fell like dominoes for him.
First, Ohio. Then Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Michigan, more than a week after the election, still hadnt been called, but election officials said Trump looked poised to win that state as well.
All four were strongholds for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, in large part because of strong union support. But with many of the union voters who once backed Obama now backing Trump, Democrats will have to revisit how they reach out to the working class in 2018 and beyond.
The Democratic Party has lost its footing among working people and allowed the Republican Party to become the party of the working class, said Robert Bruno, director of the Labor Education Program at the University of Illinois-Chicago. And thats an astonishing thing to have to admit."
FULL story: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/11/20/gop-wins-over-union-members-in-midwest.html
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Hillary won the working class- you mean whites that make 70k and millionaires?
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#5
Interesting point, Steve. As I watched the campaign unfold, I recall the candidates touring
madinmaryland
Nov 2016
#8
Thanks to the nonstop media coverage. Dems are not responsible for this debacle.
duffyduff
Nov 2016
#22
Reagan often argued that private sector workers rights to organize were fundamental in a democracy
Omaha Steve
Nov 2016
#34
pres of SAG was long before he got into politics. and poland had more to do with his anti communist
JI7
Nov 2016
#36
What will Republicans and Trump actually do FOR unions and the working class?
Martin Eden
Nov 2016
#17
Being willfully stupid is no excuse. These are racist, sexist assholes who think
duffyduff
Nov 2016
#20
BTW Marta & I were for US Senator Warren until she said she wasn't running!
Omaha Steve
Nov 2016
#31