Big Union To Blitz Battlegrounds With 200,000 Anti-McCain Flyers During Convention Tomorrow Night

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Big Union To Blitz Battlegrounds With 200,000 Anti-McCain Flyers During Convention Tomorrow Night

By Greg Sargent - September 3, 2008, 3:23PM

The AFL-CIO is readying a major anti-McCain blitz timed to McCain's big convention night tomorrow, unleashing 10,000 volunteers that will deliver fliers hitting McCain to some 200,000 households in five battleground states during the convention's final festivities.

Here's a look at the flyer, which hasn't been released yet and boasts a heavy emphasis on kitchen-table and trade issues (click on the image to enlarge):

The flyer seeks to directly counter-program McCain's message tomorrow, which (aside from POW-POW-POWing) will seek to paint him as a reformer with a career of independence from the GOP and a history of bucking George W. Bush.

To that end, it hits McCain on a triumvirate of economic issues: Health care, NAFTA, and Social Security. It emphasizes McCain's 26 years in Washington, the multitude of lobbyists working on or raising cash for his campaign, and the likelihood that McCain will continue Bush's economic policies.

The flyer will be delivered to households in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota (the site of the GOP convention), AFL-CIO spokesperson Steve Smith confirms. Volunteers will start hitting union households with the flier in the late afternoon tomorrow and continue into the night.


Late Update: The volunteers will actually be dropping the fliers in 24 states, with a special emphasis on the five battlegrounds listed above.


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[ej510]

1. K&R!

[Alter Ego]

2. Labor has been EXTREMELY helpful this time around.

Even more so than they were in 2004.

[ClarkUSA]

4. Labor has had a seat at Team Obama's table -- literally

Unlike in 2000 and 2004, where they were not allowed into the inner sanctum of planning.

[WinkyDink]

8. Maybe so. But I DO know they WON PA. the last 2 times.

And will this year.

[livetohike]

3. K & R n/t

[doublethink]

5. That's a touchdown !!!

K&R.

[Cha]

6. All they have to do is Blitz

the Facts..so easy when you're against mccain. Don't have to have hire any stinkin' mindfuckers to come up with ways to brainwash the idiots into further submission.

THANK YOU, UNIONS!:bounce: :patriot: :patriot: :kick: :party:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Wrong picture.

[Hope And Change]

9. Kick!