Union Blitzes Battlegrounds With More Mail Hammering McCain On Economy

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Union Blitzes Battlegrounds With More Mail Hammering McCain On Economy

By http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/profile/sargent">Greg Sargent - October 6, 2008, 11:50AM


Working America, the arm of the AFL-CIO that does outreach to nonunion workers, keeps up the economic assault on John McCain with another huge, hard-hitting mailing targeting the battleground states.

Also, in an interesting experiment, the AFL-CIO tells me that they'll be emailing this video out to a list that includes thousands of Republicans and Independents in the swing states -- "a persuasion piece," as AFL spokesperson Steve Smith puts it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnxuqj99y8c

The thing to keep in mind is that the ratcheted up activity by the big unions is driven partly by the fact that their http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/top_obama_labor_supporter_warn.php">own internal polling indicates that the race is much more volatile in the battlegrounds than public polls suggest, and that low-info voters there tend to be surprised when they learn the truth about McCain's economic proposals.


Late Update: The mail piece is going out to more than a million swing-state households, and the vid is the first in a three part series.


http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/union_blitzes_battlegrounds_wi.php">Link

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