Nader: No Traction with Union members

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Fri Aug 11 03:12:42 PDT 2000


In the Socialist Worker (UK) a report of Nader's campaign setting the union movement on fire is illustrated with a picture of Ralph addressing three bored looking chaps in peaked caps in a school classroom - the close cropping of this photograph suggesting that the three are the only people in the audience. Socialist Worker reports that the International Socialist Organisation (US) is throwing its weight behind Nader, which doubtless will tip the balance to his election...

In message <p04310104b5b73b599471@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>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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