Michigan and Ohio: Swing States No More?

Another good point made by TWI’s Daphne Eviatar and Josh Marshall, who sums it up well. From TPM:

Senate Republicans are following this course for three key reasons — first is payback against a major industrial union; second is payback against states like Michigan

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The Real Reason Southern Republicans Oppose the Bailout

The news coverage today is all about how the greedy auto workers and their unions refused to accept the oh-so-reasonable compromise proposed by Senate Republicans that would require them to quickly drop their wages and benefits to match those of foreign-owned plants.

But none of the mainstream news coverage I’ve More…