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November 08, 2009

Altmire's Door-knockers?

By Dave Anderson:

Who are Jason Altmire's (D-PA-4) door-knockers?

The traditional source of door-knockers and phone bankers for Democrats are some combination of environmentalists, pro-choice activists, feminists, union members, health-care advocates, peace advocates, generic multi-issue liberals and the African American grandmother network. In PA-4, feminists and pro-choice activists have never been too involved with Altmire because he has said since he started running in 2005 that he would be voting against their interests on a regular basis. Environmentalists saw Altmire vote against Markley-Waxman this summer, health-care advocates saw him vote for the Stupak Amendment poison-pill and then against the entire reform bill last night. Union members as a class have not been screwed by Altmire yet, he actually voted for EFCA when there was no chance in hell of it passing. But if Altmire wants to focus on "jobs, jobs, jobs" without a plan, EFCA will be too controversial for him to vote for it. Hell, 70% of EFCA will most likely not get his vote. And his district is fairly white and trending Repbulican.

So where will Jason Altmire get people willing to get up at 6:30 on a Saturday morning to door knock for him next summer if he has managed to piss off all traditional base support groups in the Democratic and liberal coalition?

http://www.newshoggers.com/blog/2009/11/altmires-doorknockers.html

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