Comments on: Thomas Geoghegan, Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat On Its Back

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Stephen Laniel’s Unspecified Bunker » Lists of previously-read books — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:41:54 +0000

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By: slaniel

slaniel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:51:02 +0000

Geoghegan's point is that the Republicans haven't gotten that segment of voters, and that adding more union members would almost automatically add Democratic voters. The GOP knows this, which explains all the Republican anti-union measures.

By: Mike Jeffers

Mike Jeffers — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:08:15 +0000

In Hunter Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972″ he made it seem like the McGovern campaign’s dismissal of the traditional democratic constituencies that FDR originally brought together was part of what created the split between labor voters and the democratic party (essentially by aligning with the student movement and blowing off the party apparatus. Anything in there supporting that? its always been confusing to me when the republicans got that segment of voters.