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Clearly unions have little influence.
Public-Sector Union AFSCME Now No.1 Spender in 2010 Election Cycle - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
There in lies the problem with lobbyists. What a waste of money that could be going to the employees.
First Read - NBC/WSJ poll: 62% against stripping public employees' bargaining rights
this is why indiana will go dem.
My point is, as a resident of New York, I know from experience that the unions have a lot of influence here, between what they spend themselves on vilifying their opposition and donate to the candidates that support them.
And you 'know' this because?
rasmussen was found to be the most accurate pollster in america in 2008
http://www.fordham.edu/images/acade...ccuracy in the 2008 presidential election.pdf
afscme gave 87.5 mil to union friendly candidates last cycle
Public-Sector Union AFSCME Now No.1 Spender in 2010 Election Cycle - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
of course, those days are over
Prof
what your article does is examine FINAL election polls and compare them with election day results. As such, we do NOT get a look at what Rasmusses specializes in - his early polls during the early stages and middle stages of the campaign are normally tilted in favor of the republican or conservative and are usually outliers.
You look at but one component without looking at the entire picture
For all the derision directed toward pre-election polling, the final poll estimates were not
far off from the actual nationwide voteshares for the two candidates.
your threadbare one page article from Fordham clearly states this right at the start
Your comments only admit the right wing cash is more powerful and will continue to be more powerful.
The Citizens United ruling will be the downfall of our political process just as Dred Scott propelled us to the Civil War.
yes, i know
that's why you need to look at rasmussen's month-by-month
yup
save your opinions for those who respect em
Essentially, the way CBS and the Times got the survey to produce the result was to over-sample union and public employee households. Only seven percent of the private sector workforce is unionized, but among the 984 people interviewed for the survey, 20 percent identified themselves and/or somebody in their household as union members.
Similarly, government employees approximately 10 percent of the national workforce, yet the survey respondents include an unrealistically high proportion of public employees, at 25 percent of the total.
As the standoff between unions and Wisconsin Republicans wages on, an analysis of the nation’s 10 largest labor unions shows some top leaders – the people being derided as “union bosses” – make six-figure salaries funded by members’ dues.
Leaders earned between $173,000 and $618,000 at major unions, the Center for Public Integrity found in examining 2009 tax records, with some groups paying dozens of employees in the six figures. At the three major unions , which together represent more than 5.6 million public workers, presidents’ salaries ranged between $400,000 and $500,000 in 2009.
it looks like a done deal in ohio
Ohio Advances Curbs on Public Unions - WSJ.com
this is not surprising, the pros saw it coming quite awhile ago, due to the composition of the buckeye legislature
what's going on in ohio and wisconsin is sweeping the nation, and the wave is huge
in each particular locality, it's just going to be a matter of degree
stay up
62% against stripping public employees' bargaining rights
Yeah, but those are just Americans. Who cares what they think? Republicans have made their decision, and it is the job of good little serfs to shut up and accept it.
Replace Republicans with Democrats and that's how most Americans felt when the Democrats passed a federal healthcare law against the will of the majority of Americans.
I hate how much influence the unions, through the dues of the membership, have with governments from coast to coast. I'm sick and tired of watching legislatures whore themselves one day and then claim to represent the will or the best interests of the people the next day.
What I hate even more, though, is when legislators believe the way out of a fiscal crisis they inflicted on us is to turn around and break the deals they made to get into or stay in office. No. You made your bed, now you lie in it and figure out how to fix things without breaking the contracts.
Legislators that advocate breaking contracts or treaties or any kind should be rendered ineligible for re-election merely for making the suggestion -- if it's so vital to the interests of their constituents, they should be willing to fall on their own swords to make it happen.
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