AFL-CIO To Spend $53 Million Against McCain
The fight between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination could drag on for months, but one of the largest Democratic interest groups plans to shift attention to defeating Sen. John McCain in the general election. The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor union organization, will announce plans Wednesday for a $53 million effort to elect a Democrat to the White House.
The AFL-CIO will rely on one of the oldest strategies in the political playbook: Define your opponent before your opponent defines himself. The labor organization will launch its "McCain Revealed" campaign to paint McCain as anti-worker and to tie him to the economic policies of President Bush. The AFL-CIO, which is an umbrella group for dozens of large national labor unions, has tailored messages about McCain for each of its member unions. Members of the American Federation of Teachers will get information about where McCain stands on education, for example.
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Wall Street Journal | Brody Mullins | March 11, 2008 04:41 PM