marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/23/2009
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Consultant Mike Murphy, who is working with the forces arrayed against EFCA, or "card check," e-mails to dispute my assessment of his side's polling . Marc, I'd argue with your assertion that the two card check polls are opposite, yet equal sides of the same coin. Our data [note: ...
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 1/23/2009
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
I've obtained some internal polling from proponents of
the Employee Free Choice Act that shows us precisely...
how interest groups shape public opinion as they gague it. Let's take the main provision of EFCA -- "card check," which the AFL-CIO now ...
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Poll v. Poll: How Each Side Describes "Card Check"
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School’s In: What Ambinder (and America) Still Needs to Learn about Employee Free Choice
Firedoglake —
... Today, corporate toady Mike Murphy of CDW writes Ambinder to say that their polling, by McLaughlin and Associates, is probably "far more accurate" because it uses the words "effectively replace a federally supervised secret ballot." Note the introduction of the word "effectively." In fact, the Employee Free Choice Act allows workers to have a "secret ballot" election if they want one. Woo hoo! Have a party. What Murphy and his fellow hacks don't say is that when given a choice, most workers probably aren't going to ...
“Union Members Oppose Employee Free Choice” and Other Knee Slappers By W. James Antle III
Firedoglake —
... Lobbyist Mike Murphy, with time on his hands now that his unwanted advice to the McCain campaign is no longer needed, is being well paid to shovel this kind of nonsense. ...
Is Obama Serious about Card Check?
TPM Election Central —
... "They've done a good job," says one labor ally characterizing the business opposition. As for the larger public, there's some debate over whether the public is pro or anti-EFCA. I suspect few folks really know about it but in general the public is in ...
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