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and almost certainly would have given Gore a victory there, and thus the presidency, had
every voter’s preference been registered.
It is in the states where unions are already strong that the political climate
is most hospitable to organizing more workers into unions. Even when they increase
voter turnout in states such as New York and California, labor has the ability to push
politics in a leftward direction and to elect pro-labor officials to a plethora of offices
including the United States Congress. A demobilized polity presents special
opportunities to those who can and will educate and mobilize their members even when
that interest group is in decline.
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