Union Endorsements Lose Value

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Organized labor has sold out the working class so often that voters ignore union endorsements. Gephardt tanked. Howard Dean, the other union candidate, went from front-runner to also-ran.

With union endorsements losing value, look for politicians to become less interested in issues important to working people. There's nobody else to blame but the unions themselves. In New York, for example, conservative Republican George Pataki handily won re-election. He called himself "The Working Person's Goveror" because of all the union endorsements he got.

This is what happens in the wake of headlines that read Teamsters Endorse Bush.

[RandomUser]

1. The Unions are in trouble

I'm not sure that it is entirely their own fault. There's more than enough blame to go around, and not all of it is entirely theirs. But the results in Iowa will make it harder for Unions to exercise political pull from now on.

[3rdParty]

2. Unions still have power but....

But now union members vote for the repubs 40% of the time. In NY they all endorsed Pitaki last year.