Tonight, AFL-CIO Leader Tells You How

For years the Democratic Party lost ground among working-class, white, males. These voters make up more than half of the electorate and many political scientists believe that the appeal of social conservative issues by the Republicans has helped convince them to vote against their own economic self-interest.

The Wall Street Journal reports today though, that an AFL-CIO effort called Working America, combined with the Obama 50 state strategy may have shifted enough of these voters into the blue column to turn the tide….

I don't think very much of people who say the fight between Obama and Clinton undermines progressives generally in the upcoming general election. When you see that most average voters like both, that most are excited by the race and that people refer to a shared ticket as a "dream team," it just doesn't seem plausible. In other words, I'm with The Daily News on this question. My explanation? In a 24-hour news cycle with their race in the constant loop as the top story, it's just something for talking heads to say.

And keep saying.

Ad nauseum.

One way or another, we have to end this Bush'ly era, and I think we will. One way or another. The GOP, it turns out, isn't that great for the economy. You might have seen that jobless claims have hit a two year high and that it has been three years since so many people were drawing Unemployment.

The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications filed for unemployment insurance jumped by a seasonally adjusted 38,000 to 407,000 for the week ending March 29. The increase left claims at their highest point since Sept. 17, 2005, following the blows of the devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes.

Turns out that this is just a paragraph in a larger story of GOP mismanagement of the economy. Under the Republicans watch, inequality tends to rise.