I know that it’s something that a lot of people believe but I’ve never been able to come up with a reliable study that actually demonstrated it: is it really true that public employees vote overwhelmingly for Democrats? Or are do they just overwhelmingly live in cities and cities vote overwhelmingly for Democrats?
I suppose its a fair point to question the assertion in the absence of a formal inquiry.
That said, do recent days events in Wisconsin and the Obama administration’s support for the public unions give anyone doubt?
When I used to work for Inland Steel in NW Indiana – now Mittal/Arcilor – the union rag basically was a version of the Communist Workers Daily.
BTW – where is all the commentary and MSM reporting on the uncivility of the Tea Party behavior in Wisconsin…………er, I mean, the left’s union workers. You know, what with chants of violence, Hitler placards and sech.
Heh. They must be busy covering Egypt or something………
Exit polls showed 61% of union members voted Democrat last election; I thought I read someone extrapolate that this reflected a divide between the public and non-public unions, with joe the plumber types voting red and university professors voting blue. This sounds right to me, but then I think about law enforcement.
I’ll go out on a limb and say that the only group that could probably break this down meaningfully are the unions and they aren’t going to do it.
BTW – if it wasn’t implicit, guess why its now Mittal/Arcilor?
“This sounds right to me, but then I think about law enforcement.”
The WI governor exempted police and firefighters, the two unions that supported him in the last election. Makes it a bit less of an economic issue and more of a political one.
“BTW – if it wasn’t implicit, guess why its now Mittal/Arcilor?”
Because Japanese steel was cheaper?
Steve
steve, the point I was alluding tow as that I believe a lot of people in law enforcement don’t vote Democratic.
steve –
Dave makes a comment in a subsequent post that couldn’t be truer, referencing what was practically a cabal comprised of co-complicit sr mgmt / union intransigence that caused the integrateds to become non-competitive.
First they lost the “shaped goods” to the mini-mills, then Nucor started impinging on HR band and integrated produced sheet steel was on the way out. The industry was retrenching when Mittal started the process of consolidating the world’s steel industry, a process largely completed today.
Employment in the industry is a small fraction of its former days. Very, very few of the sr and middle managers I knew survived. And now that the industry is consolidated prices are higher than in our lifetimes! and Mittal scares the bejesus out of the Japanese.