The wisdom (or lack) of bashing Wal-Mart
I received an email from a famous PR guy at Edelman yesterday pointing me to this article in RealClearPolitics about how folks see the liberal war against Wal-Mart. An RT Strategies poll is cited:
By a 3-to-1 margin, 62% disapprove and only 21% approve of "Democratic candidates making Wal-Mart an issue in November's elections," in the RT Strategies poll conducted June 1-5 with a representative sample of 1,209 adults nationwide. The margin of error is + 2.7.
The data also appears to show that union members are generally unappreciative of leadership's expensive empire-building schemes. I agree with the conclusion:
A Democratic candidate echoing this line of attack would associate his or her campaign with something that people think makes no sense for labor union leaders to undertake, much less for politicians to endorse. Only 13% of all registered voters think this is the right priority for labor union leaders; only 17% of labor union households think their leaders have their priorities straight on this.
I suspect the folks at WakeUpWalMart.com won't be bookmarking this article.
