Are Ricks voters gonna be surprised when he bends over and assumes the position for the UNIONS.
Might like to tell that to the AFL-CIO which endorsed President Obama today and is planning to mobilize massive numbers of union members for get-out-the-vote efforts to reelect Obama and other Democrats.
I've said this many times before, but I don't think there's really that much difference between Gingrich and Santorum on this issue. In a northern industrial state, economic progress until recent years has depended on keeping the unions happy so they won't strike, disrupt production, or demand totally unreasonable pay and employment conditions. In a Southern state where manufacturing plants often relocated to get away from Northern union influence, economic progress depended on keeping the unions out to attract more companies.
Both Gingrich and Santorum care about economic progress. As elected officials, they voted the way their constituents wanted, and that's what elected officials are supposed to do.
In modern politics, Reagan Democrats (who were often unionized blue-collar Roman Catholics from the rustbelt) mean less than they once did, but that's the core of Santorum’s support in Pennsylvania that put him over the margin of victory in a Democratic constituency. It's not a group to which Gingrich had to appeal in Georgia. I'm not saying Gingrich can't reach those voters, but I **AM** saying whoever wins the presidency needs to win swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, and I'm more confident in someone like Santorum being able to peel off blue-collar union Democratic voters.