Clinton's AFSCME Endorsement

Though the outcome was never really in doubt, Clinton's AFSCME endorsement is helpful to her Iowa campaign, where AFSCME claims 30,000 active members, most of them in cities, and its budget is large.

Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, issued a statement in response:

It is a bit surprising that the union probably most concerned with state and local election results would support the candidate with the likeliest least appeal in red states

Comments

Pew just released its new massive national poll, and Hillary trounces Giuliani. Make sure to check the poll because it has a ton of fascinating internal numbers.

Posted by Daniel | October 31, 2007 6:27 PM

I agree completely with the comment above regarding the Pew poll. The internals are fantastic. And it was done with twice as many contacts, and of registered voters.
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re Senator Obama...
Granted I'm a Clinton supporter, but I would gladly support Senator Obama in the general...
I'm starting to get a little disillusioned. The statement issued in this response is a personal attack, nothing less.

If he wants to contrast himself on Social Security (she's for RE-LOCKING the lockbox first, since a SS "crisis" is a GOP talking point, iho); torture (she is AGAINST torture and did not "change her mind" but rather LEARNED more about torture -- mainly, that doesn't work; Republicans haven't learned that yet, even if POW JMcC himself tries to persuade them); or her papers at the Library (which I don't personally care about, but at least it's an actual issue; Go for it if this is vital to everyone's understanding of what Clinton advised Clinton).

So, since when is predicting (based on nothing but his own opinion) how the frontrunner in the Democratic primary will do in the general election in "the Red States" part of the "Politics of Hope"?

Posted by Jan | November 1, 2007 8:51 AM