Your union loyalties lead you to believe you'll have more influence with a Democratic president than a Republican one. Its reasonable up to a point - generally up to the point where being taken out and shot isn't necessarily all that different from being pecked to death by ducks. Same result, different method.
You'll reap meager gains in changing regional funding for schools, reducing the urge among parents to exit the public ed system, and stemming the tide toward testing regardless of who wins. Reduced spending, vouchers, and testing make-up the agenda. Gore and Bush do not exactly differ on the agenda. You need to work to change the agenda, not pick presidential candidates.
Dennis Breslin