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Posted at 1:38pm on Apr. 30, 2008 AFL-CIO desperate to stop "defection"

Spending big bucks to keep their party together

By Soren Dayton

The AFL-CIO is sending out mail attacking John McCain, according to the Hotline. To whom?

The piece has been sent so far this cycle to more than 400,000 swing voters, notably those much-courted Reagan Democrats living in OH, WI, MI and MN.

Note that "Democrats" are swing voters. These "swing voters" are Hillary Clinton primary voters. These are people who have a high likelihood of becoming McCain voters.

AFL-CIO is terrified that its members are going to vote for John McCain. These are those white working class voters that Barack Obama seems incapable of appealing to. They are going to trash John McCain to their own base for the next 6 months.

This is not a sign of strength. They are going to be spending $53m more on this. That's a sign of desperation.

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