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While the Republicans and Democrats both fear the lurking fraud monster, it could exist in reality only if they jointly created it, since each party's monster is a direct response to the anticipated actions of the other. Republicans think the Democrats--aided by ACORN, the AFL-CIO, organized crime, the Comintern and the New York Times--are going to stuff every urban ballot box from Miami to Chicago with fraudulent ballots cast by phony, made-up repeat voters. The Democrats fear that the Republicans--aided by the League of Snarling 'n' Sweaty Southern Sheriffs, Wal-Mart, Fox News, Dick...
Both sides have shown an affinity for such dark arts. For months, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates have been blanketing swing states with direct mail promoting Obama and attacking McCain for his "$520 Italian loafers." A union group called Wake Up Wal-Mart is running ads in swing states condemning McCain's "Bush-style corporate tax breaks," while the liberal group Catholics United has an ad saying McCain does not "defend all human life" because, among other issues, he supported the war in Iraq...
...governor needs support for his initiatives, so naturally he's not going to take a chance at alienating me." Blagojevich stayed neutral. Illinois comptroller Dan Hynes was the presumptive favorite, the son of a former state senate president, longtime 19th-ward boss and close Daley ally. The AFL-CIO was gearing up for an early endorsement of the younger Hynes. Jones caught wind of the plans and called its president. "If you proceed in that direction, you lose me," Jones told her. The union backed off, giving him and Obama time to line up support from affiliates that had large...
Garin is the president of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, also a leading national survey research firm. He has a similarly expansive résumé, having helped the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the AFL-CIO, and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. He also has a political history that may help the struggling Clinton campaign, having aided Virginia Governor Mark Warner, General Wesley Clark, and various senators...
...next day, addressing a gathering of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, Obama cited the same facility as the first of the next generation of American ingenuity. "We're going to transform shuttered steel mills to make windmills, plants that have closed will make solar panels," he said. "These kinds of jobs are bringing new life back to places that have been hard hit in recent decades - places like Fairless Hills in Bucks County, where the old U.S. Steel plant is now being used to make wind turbines...