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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Votes Today May Be Political Barometer for the 2012 Election

Voters on Tuesday, led by mayoral candidate in the country's largest city, and the votes on controversial measures, involving workers' rights, reproductive rights and voting rights to present their own judgments. Although the problems are different, they can advance in the 2012 presidential election sign of the mood of voters. However, if turnout is low, in line with market expectations, which will vote on these forecasts, the results of a year from now of limited value.

One of the most intense fighting on election day, with the state's influence, will be in Ohio, organized labor is to promote the abolition of a law to limit public sector employees, including police and firefighters collective bargaining. Anti-union laws, Senate Bill No. 5, Governor John R. Kasich and his Republican-led Assembly of the signal achievements. If voters overturn the law, they can restore the 2012 Democratic Party hope that this critical swing state. Supporters argue that the law as to contain labor costs in an era of budget deficits of important reforms.

Of measures has become a struggle for the economic struggle, and whether the Governor Kasich and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Republican agents - antibargaining the core of the law, his legislative package - too far in the fight against expenses actually prevent rebound.

In the firefighters in the Columbus Day (Tuesday) morning at League headquarters, and notebook computers are coordinating their efforts young people out to vote. Sitting in a room full of soda and campaign posters, our volunteer group, against the law, Ohio, tap the phone message and transmit e-mail.

"We believe that we are to succeed, which is why today we are all these people, said:" Yuri Beckelman, the group's spokesman.

Unions said they believe that their views will prevail. They noted that they collected on the ballot law, and to 1668 Quinnipiac University in mid-October, found that 57% of respondents want the law down to the 1.3 million registered voters signatures.

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