Nader: No Traction with Union members

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 9 09:46:47 PDT 2000


Nathan Newman wrote:


>Even in Michigan, where the UAW-dominated unions have been most pissed at
>Clinton-Gore over trade, Nader does not seem to get a significant bump in
>support from union members over nonunion members.
>
> An EPIC-MRA poll, conducted 8/4-7, surveyed 600 likely voters;
>margin of error +/- 4% (release, 8/8).
>
>General Election Matchup
> ---------Union Affil--------
> Now 7/00 Lib Mod Con Member Household No Member
>Bush 45% 46% 15% 33% 78% 27% 35% 49%
>Gore 37 34 65 41 12 49 50 33
>Nader 5 8 11 5 1 7 4 5
>Buchanan 1 3 2 0 2 2 -- --
>Undec. 12 9 8 21 7 14 12 12

Small sample, and god knows how the numbers were rounded, but Nader's support among union members is 40% higher than among nonmembers.

Doug



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