[Alberta's Child]

He seems to have overlooked the fact that the historical party affiliations are now backwards. He's laying out a populist message for the Republican Party that was never really part of the GOP message. A populist approach was really part of the Democratic platform, and it was only for a brief period of time in the 1980s when the GOP was able to generate enough strong appeal to those Democrats to win three straight presidential elections by very wide margins.

A more intriguing question for me is: Why does organized labor insist on voting for Democratic candidates and Democratic policies that have been such big factors in the decline of organized labor in the U.S.?

[Theoria]

The populist message would be against illegal immigration, bailouts, debt and spending.

The GOP chose to nominate their candidate for whom supported the bailouts and other financial mechanisms but was against the support for things as the auto bailout.

The better approach would have been someone opposed to both.

The Dems played up Mitt's support for 'wall street'. That worked in Ohio and PA.

The siren song of populism will return, because the affects of global wage arbitrage will only get more obvious. The skepticism toward 'free trade' and similar positions will only increase.

[SatinDoll]

Because U.S. labor union bosses, like those that are international, are communists.