AFL-CIO Can’t Agree on Single ’08 Dem
EmailABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: Unable to agree on a single presidential candidate to support, the AFL-CIO decided Wednesday to open the door for each of its 55 unions to make their own primary endorsement.
The decision comes one day after seven Democratic presidential candidates took part in an AFL-CIO forum in Chicago which was televised by MSNBC.
Even before yesterday’s forum, the AFL-CIO anticipated that it would be difficult to get behind a single candidate.
In order for the AFL-CIO as a whole to make an endorsement, there must be two-thirds support behind a single candidate.
The individual unions look for a consensus but they are not uniformly governed by the two-thirds rule, making it more likely for some of them to make endorsements during the critical run-up to next year’s nominating contests.
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Posted by: Mstessyrue | August 8, 2007, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
Why are the unions wasting their time on who to endorse? Kos will decide who wins the Dem nomination. After all, the fightin’ netroots! at DailyKos and MoveOn.org bought and paid for the DNC; it’s theirs. The unions’ role now is simply to provide the muscle to get out votes on election day. Their days of deciding have passed.
Posted by: carl | August 9, 2007, 9:32 am 9:32 am