Exactly, McCain wasn’t getting the union vote anyway.
Unfortunately, it isn’t just the unions affected by the loss of this contract. The small businesses those union workers spend their money with are also hurt as are their employees and the people they spend money with. This will ripple through an already slowed economy.
It will also hurt Boeing’s suppliers and their employees and the people they spend money with. Those people who work for Boeing suppliers in 40 states could be the difference between him winning in November and not winning, especially if some of the base stays home, votes third party, or leaves the President line blank in November.
You pull out a small percentage of the conservative vote and a small percentage of the moderate union vote and you have a Democrat victory.
This could sink him if the Democrats play it right.
Lots and lots of cubical dwellers that do ? {lots of coffee drinking that I can tell of}
“Exactly, McCain wasn’t getting the union vote anyway.”
WRONG!
This is a big Defense contractor. Most of the folks working at the plants are former Military. Lots of conservatives with no choice but to join the Unions. This is targeted at keeping them home on election day and it’s going to work.
I don’t think any Politician took a real close look at the original lease deal for the 767 tankers. They just piled on when they heard that Boeing had hired a former Government Procurement worker.