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Talking Points Memo | Big Union Targets Swing States With Massive Obama-Not-Muslim Mailer Blitz
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 7/29/2008
Talking Points Memo | Big Union Targets Swing States With Massive Obama-Not-Muslim Mailer Blitz
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In a sign that the big labor unions are about to ratchet up efforts to woo Rust Belt union Dems towards Obama, the AFL-CIO is set to blitz four swing states with a pair of mailers targeted directly at blue collar swing voters. The first one is the more interesting one: It seeks to dispel a host of false rumors about Obama that could be proving worrisome to working class whites, including the ...

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Ben Smith's Blog:  AFL seeks to defuse Obama rumors

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AFL seeks to defuse Obama rumors
Ben Smith's Blog — ... and Mineworkers told me they thought one of their roles would be in providing trusted validators for Obama, and defusing the cultural and racial issues that haunt his candidacy in parts of the electorate. Union members will “trust us more than some thing they read on the Internet or some other trumped-up lies," said Chuck Rocha, the political director of the United Steelworkers union. (Hotline has the whole, large, .pdf file here. Greg Sargent also has a take.)

Not Muslim
Talking Points Memo — ... The AFL-CIO is targeting blue collar voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with a big mailing designed to counter the "Obama is Muslim" rumors. ...

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