however, the unions really need to work on their messaging to voters and perhaps focus on trying to get some pro-labor ballot initiatives passed like they did in Ohio.

And he agreed with me that unions have some major PR to do.

do you really think they'll sit this one out to teach President Obama a lesson? Hmmm, didn't something like this happen recently with disastrous results?

I doubt they will knock themselves out to GOTV and do all the other grunt work they did in 2008.

will be apathetic about helping push it. Unions, progressives... the administration has burned a lot of bridges, a lot of people have been given the middle finger and havent forgotten.

According to Ed Schultz tonight, 27% of union members voted for Walker. It's been happening for many years, remember Reagan Democrats? Unions have been known to limit their outlook to their own perceived interests and danced with the devil many times. The three g's still dominate the mindset of many members.

Are you in a private or public sector union?

About a million members. Maybe more.

Democrats have taken the unions for granted, blacks for granted.

while the IBEW member who sponsors/coaches my sons baseball team seemed to still be onboard with the Obama/Biden '12 campaign (volunteering, yard signs, etc). I just felt like I was getting mixed messages from my union friends. Maybe they's a private/public union disparity on the intensity of that support (post Wisconsin), or maybe that's what corporate media wants us to believe. I sure hope everyone realizes the cost of apathy... I've never understood the whole "anything would be better than X" when X is a CANDIDATE FOR THE OPPOSITION PARTY!

With less than 5 months to go, those who feel betrayed/neglected need to ask themselves if they want to be responsible for electing Mittens ... and I get the whole "Team Obama is the guilty party in this conflict" argument, but I know I'd rather lose an argument than lose an election. JMHO.

That is less money and less boots on the ground. It was very important to make some headway but instead labor has been taking a beating and that has and will continue to have an impact.

We "bipartisan" killed ACORN and whiffed on anything to give unions a better hand.

Little or nothing to do with Barret, the ranks dwindle and what is left is beat to hell and has made concession after concession with leaders too close to management and politicians.

We are killing our ground assets and a golden goose, which means more of that corporate ca$h and all that comes with that.

Obama campaigned in WI in 2010. It didn't help. Polls showed no bump for the democrats he campaigned for.

To claim Obama could have "saved the day" if he only showed up is to conveniently ignore that fact.