Largest labor organization endorses Obama
(CNN)—The AFL-CIO endorsed Sen. Barack Obama Thursday, kicking one of the broadest grassroots mobilizations in recent history into “high gear.”
“In so many ways―on jobs, health care, gas prices and the war in Iraq―our country is headed in the wrong direction,” AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said in a statement announcing the endorsement. “Barack Obama has proven from his days as an organizer, to his time in the Senate and his historic run for the presidency, that he’s leading the fight to turn around America."
The endorsement is expected to help rally support around the presumptive Democratic nominee in the critical swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota where union voters make up between 25 and 35 percent of the total vote.
With an outreach of more than 13 million registered voters in 24 ‘top-tier’ states, the AFL-CIO will send volunteers to the homes of 300,000 union voters, with the 56 member-unions collectively spending more than $200 million in the 2008 election between the presidential, Senate, and House races nationwide.
“We’ll work our hearts out for Barack Obama,” said AFSCME President and AFL-CIO Political Committee Chair Gerald McEntee. “Our program is going to be worker to worker and neighbor to neighbor. We’re ready to mobilize. We’re ready to rock and roll. This country and our people are ready for change.”
The group has been running an active campaign against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain since early March, aimed at defining the Arizona senator’s stances on jobs, trade and health care among union members. Currently, AFL-CIO volunteers have knocked on 60,000 doors and distributed 1.5 million flyers critical of the Arizona senator’s economic record.
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Welcome aboard 🙂
Way to go
welcome aboard!
oh, nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poor Uneducated Miserable Adults (PUMAs) are AGAINST!!!!!!!
WE LOVED YOU, HILLARY, BUT YOU BETRAYED US!! SHAME ON YOU!!!
We will vote for mcsame now!!!
Yep, this only increases my boy's stock....
this is a tidal wave. can old pa mcbush can stand the movement?
Not This Time
cant stop progress
LOL!, after president Obama start to tax corporations, they would move over sea or go out of business and those labors would be out of work.America is a great country thanks to opportunity from the business community. Take that away, then we could be as great as the former USSR.
YES WE CAN!!!
AFL-CIO is another coup for Senator Obama!
VOTE SMART – VOTE OBAMA '08!
As an Obama supporter, no big surprise here.
Honestly though, I'd prefer to see unions take less of a role in politics, same as I'd like to see churches do likewise. Unions drive the Democrats like megachurches drive the Republicans, and neither relationship is particularly beneficial.
Nothing like getting support from the organizations that drive up the cost of living for the rest of us!
anyone else smell a landslide?"a change is a comin' ",a 'wise' man once said.
"With an outreach of more than 13 million registered voters in 24 ‘top-tier’ states, the AFL-CIO will send volunteers to the homes of 300,000 union voters, with the 56 member-unions collectively spending more than $200 million in the 2008 election between the presidential, Senate, and House races nationwide."
Wow! Its good to be the KING!!!
Obama '08
i love this. great news Obama we are really happy to see you win. obama 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!no flip flop mcBush
Hear that noise? It's a landslide coming.
Don't these guys know that Ralph Nader is more Union friendly than any corporate-controlled Democratic candidate?
VotePact
** Nader/Gonzalez 2008 **
Let's get those ground troops out there for a fifty state strategy.
A rising tide raises all boats, and swamps the USS McSame!
YES WE CAN!
Obama/Nunn in 2008 and beyond!
There are those who would argue that labor unions are no longer relevant. But they deliver like no other organization. If they truly make up 25 – 35% of the voting block in the states mentioned, that will be BIG.
I will never forgive Clintons now. How dared they to endorse *61? He doesn't have experience!
*61 (Obama) will NEVER be such a good president as G.W. Bush!
The Obama campaign is like a Mack truck barreling down on the Straight Talk Express.
What can John do, but move out of the way. We are taking our country back and we're serious. The Bushes and McBushes will be history in November.
Press on Barack, we are with you.
McSame and the pitiful remnants of his party are going to be "buried alive in the blues" come November...
Don't under estimate the republiclan machine. Thought I welcome any new body count...
independent June 26th, 2008 1:12 pm ET
anyone else smell a landslide?"a change is a comin' ",a 'wise' man once said.
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YES, CHANGE IS COMING.....
NO MORE BUSH POLICY....
WHEN OBAMA IS PRESIDENT, WE'LL TRULY BE LIVING IN A FREE WORLD...
OBAMA '08
listen up people your not just electing a president but an administration and you can bet your bottom dollar hillary will be part of that admin i dont think as vp but something somewhere vote for mccain and guess what NO HILLARY and that woul be a shame!!