Elections – Page 267 – People's World

Labor to mobilize 400,000 volunteers for 2012 elections

August 3, 2012 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

The AFL-CIO's executive council gave final approval to a plan to deploy at least 400,000 union members to work on the re-election of President Obama.

Texas elections hinge, so far, on big money

August 2, 2012

If one were to believe the commercial media coverage, it would hard to get around the conclusion that Texas voters are lazy, mean, and not very bright.

Romney lags among Jewish voters, offends Palestinians too

July 31, 2012 By Dan Margolis

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney travelled to Israel hoping to win support among Jewish Americans, but it looks as if U.S. Jewish voters will go heavily for Obama.

National Lampoon’s Romney vacation?

July 31, 2012 By Ryan C. Ebersole

While Romney's camp calls his trip "a great success," it appears to have been anything but successful. In a trip that should have been a breeze, he has succeeded in angering our closest ally, as well...

AFL-CIO: Walesa didn’t speak for Polish workers at Romney meeting

July 31, 2012 By John Wojcik And Mark Gruenberg

The largest labor federation in the U.S. is warning Polish communities nationwide that Lech Walesa's meeting with Mitt Romney in Poland this week did not have the support of Polish unions or the labor movement here...