40% of union members vote Republican
Posted on | October 3, 2012 | 1 Comment
40% of union members vote Republican
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Since 1952, only one other Republican candidate did as well among union voters — Ronald Reagan in 1980, who also had a gap of just 7 points between overall support and union support. But Reagan wasn’t able to repeat his magic in 1984 — his union vote trailed his national vote by 13 points. And that pattern continued until McCain in 2008, with the gap bouncing between 11 and 13 points from 1984 to 2004.
So there’s some support for the notion that Republicans are doing pretty well among union voters these days.
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October 3rd, 2012 @ 2:07 pm
President Reagan had been president of a labor union. Mitt Romney not so much.