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 LOUISVILLE /JEFFERSON COUNTYDEMOCRATIC PARTY NEWSLETTERWeek of November 7, 2008The link to this electronic newsletter is being e-mailed to 6,500+ Jefferson County Democrats We hope you will forward the link to your own e-mail list. *********************************** CLICK HERE FOR CURRENT LIST OF EVENTS Updated on a regular basis
Bulletin Board:
A Progressive Mandate
Our nation today is only now realizing the extent of the resounding victory for progressive ideals registered on election day. Progressives triumphed in all regions of the country and won overwhelming support from individuals of all different backgrounds.
President-elect Barack Obama defeated Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) decisively, winning the most votes in history and the largest share of the popular vote of any presidential candidate in two decades. Candidates running on progressive platforms helped Democrats expand their majorities in both houses of Congress. Democrats now have the most elected members of Congress any party has held since 1995.
Now comes the hard part. Our country faces enormous challenges, many the direct result of eight years of hapless conservative governance. The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is only the latest blow delivered to the American people after years of stagnant wages and the worst job-creation record since Herbert Hoover. Our increasingly costly health care system leaves out more and more Americans every year.
Years of war in Iraq have left Americans less safe at home and abroad despite the incredible sacrifice of our brave fighting men and women there and in Afghanistan, where the Taliban and the Al Qaeda terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 are mounting a comeback. And our planet is now eight years closer to catastrophic climate change.
Sen. McCain and other conservatives supported these policies, and they ran this election year on ambitious conservative plans that would have gone even further. The American people rejected these stale ideas yesterday, understanding the dismal consequences of conservatism these past eight years. The urgency of our problems was central to the decisions of American voters, who were significantly more likely to say that the economy, taxes, heath care, and energy were ìvery importantî compared to four years ago, according to the Pew Research Center.
That's why candidates who embraced progressive solutions to these problems won. Obama ran on the most progressive platform of any presidential candidate in at least 15 years, including a promise of universal health care coverage, a dramatic transformation to a low-carbon economy, and a historic investment in education. Winning congressional candidates also embraced progressive policies. And polls showed that voters supported progressive solutions by wide margins.
In a few short months, leaders who support progressive ideals will take up the reins of government in Washington. We must rise to the occasion. We must move beyond the false choice of left versus center to embrace solutions as big as the challenges we face. We need investments now to jumpstart our economy while laying the foundations for sustained economic growth. Restoring confidence in our economy will require a new direction for the economy, health care, clean energy, and education. And we must be willing to set priorities on government spending to restore budgetary responsibility in the coming years.
If we do these things, then we can translate yesterday's victory at the polls into a victory for health care, clean energy, national security, and a stronger and larger middle class. The American people are ready. Now it's time to deliver.
Even if your candidate didn't win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do.
Ten months ago, when Obama won in Iowa, we had a glimpse of what was possible and what became real tonight. What I wrote then about one state is now true for the whole country:
Because tonight voters decided that they didn't want to look back. They wanted to step into the future -- as if a country exhausted by the last seven-plus years wanted to recapture its youth.
And they turned out in unprecedented numbers today to make sure that no amount of scrubbed rolls, malfunctioning machines, endless lines, or polling places running out of ballots would block the way.
The history of America is studded with great breakthroughs -- propelled by leaders such as Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, and Martin Luther King -- followed by decades of consolidation and occasional regression.
The Bush years have clearly been a period of regression. The repudiation of those years is now almost universal. Even conservatives are admitting it; over the course of today, I've received numerous emails from conservatives ending with some variation on "Go Obama!"
In America's journey toward a more just and truly democratic society, tonight is another milestone. And not just because the son of a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas is now President-Elect. But also because tonight's outcome is a declaration that we are once again a nation more driven by hope and promise than a nation driven by fear.
Bush's re-election in 2004 was a monument to the power of fear. And McCain, his staff stocked with Karl Rove disciples, followed the Bush blueprint and played the fear card again and again.
Be afraid of Obama, the GOP warned us. Be afraid of something new, something different. He would meet with our enemies. His middle name is Hussein. He "pals around with terrorists," consorts with the radicals at Acorn (which is "destroying the fabric of democracy"), and doesn't see America "like you and I see America." A vote for Obama would be "dangerous" and "too risky for America."
The people of America listened, but chose to take the risk. So even if you voted for John McCain; even if you love Sarah Palin, who is still in search of the "pro-American areas of this great nation"; even if are Joe the Plumber - or, hell, even if you are Michele Bachmann - tonight is a night to be proud of America.
Obama's victory holds up a mirror, reflecting the country we are. And it turns out to be the kind of country we've always imagined ourselves being -- even if in the last seven-plus years we fell horribly short: a young country, an optimistic country, a forward-looking country, a country not afraid to take risks or to dream big.
Of course, it will take more than big dreams to help America dig out from the many crises we face. From the global economic crisis to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the day of reckoning is upon us.
But these challenging times also will provide the new president with the opportunity to really transform America. As Gary Hart points out, "Great presidents do not emerge from quiet times; they arise in times of chaos and crisis."
This is an idea that has animated Obama's candidacy from the beginning. As he put it on the stump many times last week: We began this journey in the depths of winter nearly two years ago, on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Back then, we didn't have much money or many endorsements. We weren't given much of a chance by the polls or the pundits, and we knew how steep our climb would be. But I also knew this. I knew that the size of our challenges had outgrown the smallness of our politics.
Since that time, the size of our challenges has grown even bigger -- and the smallness of our politics has even downsized McCain from a noble hero to a hack fearmonger.
But over the course of this long and arduous campaign, Obama has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to inspire us to tap into the better angels of our nature -- to stir the American people to expect more of themselves than they otherwise would.
It's a theme Michelle Obama touched on many times on the campaign trail. "Barack Obama will require that you work," she said at a rally on the eve of Super Tuesday. "He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism; that you put down your divisions; that you come out of your isolation; that you move out of your comfort zones; that you push yourself to be better; and that you engage."
This call echoed something that historian and presidential biographer David McCullough had once said about JFK. "The great thing about Kennedy," he told me, "is that he didn't say I'm going to make it easier for you. He said it's going to be harder. And he wasn't pandering to the less noble side of human nature. He was calling on us to give our best."
And when Bobby Kennedy was agonizing over whether or not to run in 1968, he told one of his advisors: "People are selfish. But they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That's why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don't make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They're hungry for leadership." Forty years later, we are starving for it. Real leadership. Leadership geared to transforming the country.
Tonight is a night to celebrate the victory of a candidate who seized his moment in history and reminded America of its youth and the optimism it longs to recapture. Let's savor it.
The dark years of the Bush regression are almost done. It's time for another American breakthrough.
THE PUNDITS' CLAIMS: An
extensive list of conservative and mainstream pundits are claiming that
the country is "center-right." Meacham
wrote in his cover story that America "is
more instinctively conservative than it is liberal" (he
admitted that his argument was "probably going to look dumb, or at least
out of step, for many months to come").
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said on Oct.
29, "It is a center right country," particularly "on economic issues."
Bill O'Reilly yesterday said, "America is still a center right country,
even though the folks voted left last night." After the 2006 elections,
pundits used the same argument. "These Democrats that were
elected last night are
conservative Democrats," said CBS' Bob Schieffer. "In Key House
Races,
Democrats Run to the Right," wrote the New York Times. In fact,
the class of 2006, which came to power in part due to
public disapproval of the Iraq war, was
remarkably progressive, favoring raising the minimum wage, opposing
Social Security privatization, and promoting "fair trade."
PROGRESSIVE BY THE NUMBERS: On
Tuesday, the country both rejected conservative ideology as well as
embraced new, progressive priorities. The latest Pew Research poll
showed that only
25 percent of the public agrees with the centerpiece of the
conservative tax program: making Bush's tax cuts permanent. The public
also agrees by
58 percent to 35 percent that the government should guarantee
"health insurance for all citizens even if it means raising taxes."
Exit poll data showed that 60 percent of voters were worried about
rising health care costs and that 66 percent of those people
backed Obama. A majority of Americans also want to
expand environmental protections, increase
the minimum wage, recognize
same-sex marriage, and
end the Iraq war, to name a few. Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) explained that the
center of the country is progressive.
2008 Election a Defeat for Ideology of Greed by Tula Connell
Even in his concession speech, Sen. John McCain got it wrong. Telling his supporters gathered at the ritzy Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix on Tuesday night that it’s natural to feel some disappointment in the loss of his campaign, he went on to say: We fought — we fought as hard as we could. And though we fell short, the failure is mine, not yours.
Not so.
Despite a badly run campaign, McCain’s defeat is not a personal
failure but a massive, popular rejection of eight years of
Bush-Cheney mismanagement, corruption, malfeasance and aggressively
anti-worker policies that McCain embraced throughout his years in the
Senate. The message that McCain voted 90 percent of th McCain’s defeat is the rejection of a government that rewards the rich at the expense of the rest of us. McCain’s defeat is the repudiation of extremist economic policies that have resulted in 3.6 million home foreclosures, unaffordable health care, a worsening unemployment rate and the proliferation of jobs that don’t support families. McCain’s defeat represents a collective turning away from a failed ideological vision of a divided nation toward the unified country of hope represented by Sen. Barack Obama. Larry Mishel, president of the progressive policy organization, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), puts it this way: It is now possible to build an economy with widely shared prosperity. The task ahead is to fashion policies that will improve the economic circumstances of the vast majority, and thereby restore confidence. When we cheered with the crowds who gathered by the thousands in the early morning hours at the White House today, we didn’t cheer because of any personal failure of McCain. We cheered because America’s working families by the millions recognized that with Obama as president, we could Turn Around America.
Here’s how union members made the difference in last night’s big win.
With 52 percent and more than 62 million votes, Obama has more than surpassed Bush’s 2004 win. His seven-point win over McCain is a decisive victory for pro-working family policies.
In union-heavy Midwestern states, where Bush had come close and McCain campaigned hard, the efforts of union volunteers helped put them solidly in Obama’s column. Obama won by 13 points in Wisconsin, 16 points in Michigan, 10 points in Minnesota and 11 points in Pennsylvania.
As of this morning, it looks like we’ve added at least five new pro-worker senators, and many AFL-CIO-endorsed candidates will be headed to the U.S. House as well. While union members didn’t win every race they targeted, the breadth and national scale of working families’ victory is striking.
Here’s how this historic win took place. More than 250,000 union volunteers devoted their time and energy to reaching out to their fellow union members—educating them on issues, informing them about candidates and getting out the vote. Some 10 million door knocks, 70 million phone calls, 27 million worksite fliers and 57 million union mail pieces made the difference in races from the White House to state legislatures.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says that last night’s results show the continued strength of the union movement and the widespread desire for change in this country.
The union movement put its full efforts into its largest political mobilization ever, and the results are clear. It’s a historic victory for working families and a chance to pass policies that will pull us out of our economic crisis and make real changes in real people’s lives.
Now, we have to move forward and fight for those policies. It won’t be easy or quick. But as we proved this year and last night, when working families unite and work hard, we can win.
Comments:
Thank you!
Because of years of work by people of all ages, races, stations and faiths hungry for change, the political pendulum is swinging back toward sanity. It took the inspiration of a rare leader to translate that hunger for change into an election the likes of which we have not seen in our time.
Barack Obama brings new hope to America’s working families, and our increased majority in the U.S. Senate means we can translate that hope into reality. So thank you for your hard work in educating and mobilizing voters. (Click here to read AFL-CIO post-election commentary on our blog.)
Last night was a time to rejoice, but now it is time to get back to work fighting for working families.
We are responsible for holding our elected leaders to the promises they made and providing public support for the tough legislative choices they will make on our behalf. The first challenge for Barack Obama, Joe Biden and the hundreds of great legislators we helped elect is to address the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Hard-working families are losing jobs, homes, health care, retirement savings and hope. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been committed to rescuing Wall Street—but almost nothing has been done to rescue Main Street. People need help, and they need it now.
We need an immediate new recovery plan to jumpstart our economy, including provisions for:
We also desperately need to make job-creating infrastructure investments in schools, roads, bridges and clean renewable energy for sustained economic growth. We must reregulate our financial markets and reform America's broken health care system so no one has to choose between food and medicine or between life-saving treatment and bankruptcy.
These are the building blocks of a sustainable economy. But even with with those investments, our economy cannot work for everyone unless we restore worker's freedom to bargain for a better life. To do that, we must enact the Employee Free Choice Act, which will:
Instead of respecting workers' free choice about whether to form unions and bargain, corporations have formed multiple front groups to launch a massive campaign to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act. Those groups have pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to attack and smear members of Congress who support the legislation.
Count on this being one of the largest, foulest propaganda campaigns in our history. This fight is their No. 1 priority, and it is ours as well.
America's unions—from the national level down to individual union members—are joining together to overcome the lies and distortions and win prompt passage of the Employee Free Choice Act to restore America's middle class.
Workers who belong to unions earn 30 percent more than nonunion workers, are 59 percent more likely to have employer-provided health coverage and are four times more likely to have pensions. Not surprisingly, more than half of U.S. workers—nearly 60 million—say they would join a union right now if they could.
But not enough workers get the chance to join a union, because today's company-dominated system allows corporations to block workers from deciding for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life. Companies routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire people who try to organize unions. This is an urgent problem for workers, blocking their free will and their ability to improve their economic well-being.
America's entire union movement is committed to passing the Employee Free Choice Act in 2009. We will fight, just like we fought to win this election, to do so. Yes we can, and yes we will!
Thank you again,
John J. Sweeney
P.S. Look at what happened during this election—unity we never witnessed before made historic change possible. We must keep that drive alive. Take the next step and get your friends to join the Million-Member Mobilization in support of the Employee Free Choice Act today.
DAILY GRILL
"I have not been convicted of anything." -- Sen. Ted Stevens
(R-AK),
10/29/08
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"I'm proud to stand with John McCain." -- Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL)
10/15/08
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"[Obama] neither received a broad mandate from the public nor the needed
large congressional majorities." -- Columnist Robert Novak, on
President-elect Barack Obama's 7.5 million popular vote margin win,
11/05/08
Quotes of the Day
Top 10 Dumbest Quotes of Campaign 2008Idiotic Gaffes, Misstatements and Brain Lapses by the Presidential Candidates1. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the
United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just
right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity
to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie
Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch
video clip)
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HUMOR
Best Humor of Election 2008
After an election year that saw an explosion of political humor on the
Web, on late-night TV, and in unintentional comedy supplied by the
candidates, here's a look back at the
best humor of the 2008 campaign, neatly compiled into several "best
of" lists:The Best Late-Night Jokes Top 100 Funny Pictures & Cartoons Top 25 Viral Videos Top 10 Funniest Gaffes Top 10 Dumbest Quotes Best Spoofs from Late-Night TV Funniest Campaign Moments
ETHICS -- FRIEND OF COLEMAN FUNNELED $75,000 TO SENATOR THROUGH
WIFE: A lawsuit filed late last week alleges that
one of Sen. Norm Coleman's (R-MN) best friends and supporters, Nasser
Kazeminy, used a Texas-based oil-rig services company to funnel $75,000 to
Coleman through his wife Laurie's insurance firm. Paul McKim, who filed the
lawsuit and who until last Friday was CEO of Deep Marine Technologies (DMT),
says Kazeminy -- who owns about 50 percent of the company --
threatened to fire him if he did not agree to the deal. The lawsuit
alleges Kazeminy
explicitly sought to benefit Sen. Coleman: "In March 2007, Kazeminy
began ordering the payments of corporate funds to companies and individuals
who tendered no goods or services to DMT for the stated purpose of trying to
financially assist United States Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota." The
lawsuit alleges that the money was sent through Laurie's insurance firm,
Hays Companies, to make it "appear as though the payments were made in
connection with legitimate transactions." Coleman called the suit's claims "false
and defamatory," but Friday, McKim produced
records
documenting the payments to
Laurie Coleman's firm, Hays. Earlier this month, Harpers reported that
Kazeminy "covered
the bills for Coleman's lavish clothing purchases at Neiman Marcus in
Minneapolis" -- a topic the campaign was
not eager to discuss. ETHICS -- SENATE MAJORITY LEADER REID SAYS STEVENS 'IS NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SERVE' IN THE SENATE: On Saturday, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) issued a statement declaring that his close but embattled friend, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) would "retain his Senate seat while the legal process moves forward" regarding Stevens' recent conviction on seven counts of lying on Senate disclosure forms to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts. "I am absolutely confident that Ted Stevens will be sworn into the Senate while he appeals this unjust verdict," said Inouye in the statement. But Inouye's claim was swiftly rebuked by House Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Saturday night. "While I respect the opinion of Senator Daniel Inouye, the reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate," said Reid in a statement. "As precedent shows us, Senator Stevens will face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of his appeals process." On Thursday, the Alaska Bar Association sought to suspend Stevens' law license on an interim basis, pending completion of his appeals.
ADMINISTRATION -- WITH RECORD LOW APPROVAL, 'REAL SADNESS' HANGS OVER BUSH WHITE HOUSE: A new CBS News poll finds that President Bush's approval rating is now at just 20 percent -- the "lowest ever recorded for a president." The President's "disapproval rating of 72 percent matches his all-time high, first reached last month." Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino complained about about Bush's abysmal approval ratings, claiming that they are like a high school popularity contest. "Everybody would like to be popular. You can all remember that back in high school, everyone really wanted to be popular. Some of us just weren't," she lamented. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that loyal Bushies are engaging in upbeat talk to mask "disappointment and frustration among many White House staffers," who see their boss as "a good and steadfast man who has gotten a bad rap." The Post quoted a "prominent Republican who regularly talks with senior White House officials," who reportedly said, "There is a real sadness there."
POLITICS -- PALIN 'DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT
AFRICA WAS A CONTINENT': Fox News's Carl Cameron reported last night
on the latest revelations in the strained relationship between Sen. John
McCain (R-AZ) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) during their campaign for the
White House. According to Cameron, Palin had "real problems with basic
civics, government structures, municipal, state, and federal government
responsibilities. She didn't know the nations involved in the North American
Free Trade Agreement." More astonishingly, Palin "didn't
understand...that Africa
was a continent and not a country" and asked senior McCain aides "if
South Africa wasn't just part of the country as opposed to a country in the
continent." In addition, Newsweek reports that Palin spent far more on
clothing than the $150,000 reported last month. According to a preview by
Politico's Mike Allen, "McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they
regarded as her
outrageous profligacy." The New York Times reports today that "one
of the last straws for the McCain advisers" in their strained
relationship with Palin came just days before the election when Palin took a
call from whom she thought was French President Nicolas Sarkozy but was
actually a prank by Canadian radio hosts.
Think Fast
White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment." Some of the new rules, which are "among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era," would ease controls on emissions of pollutants, relax drinking-water standards, and lift restrictions on mountaintop coal mining.
The federal Bureau of Land Management "is reviving plans to sell oil and gas leases in pristine wilderness areas in eastern Utah that have long been protected from development." "The proposed sale, which includes famous areas in the Nine Mile Canyon region, would take place Dec. 19, a month before President Bush leaves office."
According to Justice Department and FAA records, "Attorney General Michael Mukasey has taken personal trips on government jets almost every weekend since he took office less than a year ago at a cost to taxpayers of more than $155,800." Mukasey was out of Washington on personal trips "for almost half or more of February, May, July and September" and traveled home 45 times from Nov. 2007 to Sept. 2008.
"At least 7.5 million Americans owe more on their mortgages than their homes are currently worth," according to a report released today by real estate research firm First American CoreLogic. Another 2.1 million people "stand right on the brink," with their homes "worth less than 5 percent more than the mortgages they’re paying on them."
K Street trade associations and corporate firms -- largely run by Republicans -- are preparing for their influence to be "significantly diminished if Democrats take over the White House and extend their majorities in the House and Senate." The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers are led by Republicans, while Disney, AT&T, Verizon, and Visa "all are paying big bucks to top lobbyists with ties to the GOP
Congress may be taking up a stimulus bill worth as much as $500 billion in a lame-duck session following today's election. Goldman Sachs economists said that the measure should be that large in order to offset a big slowdown in consumer and business spending.
Cabinet rumors: Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) says he isn't interested in becoming Secretary of State. Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who is reportedly being considered for health secretary, says he'd consider a potential position. Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is a leading contender to return to that post.
Joe Biden is eyeing Walter Mondale -- not Dick Cheney -- as a vice presidential role model. "Mondale, who served under President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s, was consulted on almost every appointment and had access to the same documents as the president." "Biden will be more interested in carrying out the Obama agenda as opposed to his own agenda," said Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA).
INTERESTING
A Last Push To Deregulate
White House to Ease Many Rules, By R. Jeffrey Smith The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.
The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.
Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.
Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said: "This administration has taken extraordinary measures to avoid rushing regulations at the end of the term. And yes, we'd prefer our regulations stand for a very long time -- they're well reasoned and are being considered with the best interests of the nation in mind."
As many as 90 new regulations are in the works, and at least nine of them are considered "economically significant" because they impose costs or promote societal benefits that exceed $100 million annually. They include new rules governing employees who take family- and medical-related leaves, new standards for preventing or containing oil spills, and a simplified process for settling real estate transactions.
While it remains unclear how much the administration will be able to accomplish in the coming weeks, the last-minute rush appears to involve fewer regulations than Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, approved at the end of his tenure.
In some cases, Bush's regulations reflect new interpretations of
language in federal laws. In other cases, such as several new
counterterrorism initiatives, they reflect new executive branch decisions
in areas where Congress -- now out of session and focused on the elections
-- left the president considerable discretion.
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Buy American Mention of the Week, By Roger Simmermaker
NONE THIS WEEK
GOOD NEWS
Though he will likely end his tenure with one of the lowest job-approval ratings in history, President Bush is earning praise for "engineering what may be the most carefully considered and potentially successful presidential transition in modern times."
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"[O]ne-third of voters said the 2008 presidential election has made them 'more proud' to be an American."
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"The percentage of Americans who voted in this year's historic presidential campaign appeared to reach the highest level in four decades."
VIDEOS We Won!
We didn't win every race, but we did get a new labor friendly President and won some important races. Since all of you worked so hard during this election, I urge you to click the link below to enjoy a photo montage to a victory song.
Click here to watch the Kentucky Labor 2008 Victory video.
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Barack Obama's impressive victory says a lot about America, and also about
the current mindset of the American voter.
Thanks to your support, when Barack Obama is sworn in Jan. 20, 2009, we
will deliver 1 million signatures in support of the Employee Free Choice Act
to the president and the new Congress.
"They want these rules to continue to have an impact long after they
leave office," said Matthew Madia, a regulatory expert at OMB Watch, a
nonprofit group critical of what it calls the Bush administration's
penchant for deregulating in areas where industry wants more freedom. He
called the coming deluge "a last-minute assault on the public . . .
happening on multiple fronts."
