Good think-piece in today's Politico by former Democratic House leader Martin Frost on how working people's votes will be key in this year's election:
Political relevance often varies from election to election. Largely unnoticed in the 2008 campaign so far is the highly relevant role that organized labor will play this fall. Assuming Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, it can be argued that the Illinois senator’s fate against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain may be determined largely by labor’s ability to convince its white, working-class members to support the first African-American nominee for president.
Labor has always played a significant role in Democratic politics, but rarely has it been called upon to do more than it will be asked to do this year.
The only thing I would add is that while Frost focuses mainly on white union households, American labor today is quite diverse -- just like America. But no matter what our color, we stand united in support of the American Dream Candidate, Senator Barack Obama.
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