Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
Unions step in and mobilise Democratic vote for victory
With the Democratic Party and AFL-CIO organisations on the ground totally out of touch, the United Steelworkers union stepped in and successfully organised a Democratic win in Alabama’s senate election. MARK GRUENBERG reports
DAN FLIPPO, the Birmingham-based United Steelworkers (USW) union district director for the Deep South, noticed something interesting when he looked at Republican US Senate nominee Roy Moore’s last run for statewide office, several years ago.
Moore barely won his state supreme court seat statewide. He also won Mobile, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump won Mobile by 14 percentage points in 2016.
If we can reverse that result in Mobile, Flippo thought, we can beat Moore.
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