Don’t forget; Union workers in the Midwest went for Reagan big-time.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
One thing people need to understand about unions in the year 2008: very few union members work in the private sector. The huge majority of "union" workers are government workers, members of AFSCME and SEIU and the postal workers. People like autoworkers and teamsters and steelworkers are a small minority. When you talk about "the union vote" you are in reality talking mostly about minority government drones, not the lunchbucket Reagan democrats of the eighties. Goobermint parasites won't go for McCain.