An interesting report made some noise online this week by showing that most Republicans planning to vote for Mitt Romney are doing so against their own interests. The report and corresponding map — “Romney Economic Plan Hurts Red States, Helps Wealthy Urbanites, While Obama Boosts Rural Areas” — allows readers to see...

Yale lecturer John Stoehr has published an adept piece on Al-Jazeera this morning titled, Rick Santorum is not from the working class. In the piece, Stoehr first traces the misconception of Santorum’s class standing to David Brooks whose ability to understand class Stoehr unequivocally admonishes: Unlike other leftist writers, I don’t...

There may be no better day of the year to drum up some old fashion scandal-mongering than today, Super Tuesday, as Mitt Romney will “compete” against Rick Santorum and Newt Ginigrich in 10 different states for the votes of the GOP faithful. Something to keep an eye on, then, is this article from The Inquisitr ...

The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry (UA) was the first International Union to endorse President Barack Obama’s candidacy for President of the United States in 2008 and yesterday they announced their endorsement of his re-election bid, making the UA the first building trades union to...

The labor media is finally taking notice of just how anti-union the Associated Builders & Contractors (ABC) are thanks to Mitt Romney’s now-public allegiance to the big business lobby. The ABC has endorsed Romney in the GOP primary. The ABC’s well-funded and constant attack on construction unions is old news in Building Trades...

New numbers indicate that if the Presidential election was held today, via social media, it would be an Obama landslide. But, quite obviously, that’s not how it works. In his 2008 election, President Obama used social media to win the Democratic primary. He refined his machine in the General Election to reach younger voters. His ...

The GOP’s goal of recapturing the White House in 2012 is looking less likely in the aftermath of Ohio’s SB5 repeal. Voting results show that many working class Whites broke party lines to vote against the measure. As the GOP distances itself from Labor in a time of economic hardship, their relationship with working class ...