Why Unions Could Cost Obama The Campaign

Why Unions Could Cost Obama The Campaign
President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, after arriving on Marine One on the South Lawn. Obama went to Andrews Air Force Base to attend the transfer of remains ceremony marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, after arriving on Marine One on the South Lawn. Obama went to Andrews Air Force Base to attend the transfer of remains ceremony marking the return to the United States of the remains of the four Americans killed this week in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

While a teachers union in Chicago has dominated headlines nationwide because of a strike affecting 400,000 students, the union influence in another story with national implications went largely overlooked. This week, Michigan, which had been touted as a swing state this election cycle because of the discontentment of white working-class voters, lost its battleground status and was declared a state President Obama is likely to carry in 2012. A new poll conducted for the Detroit Free Press gives the president a commanding 10-point lead.

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