Will Alliance With Labor Burn Democrats in 2010?

• By Bret Jacobson
• Special to Roll Call
• Sept. 8, 2009, Midnight

Etiquette holds that you “dance with the one that brung you.” But politics is clearly not guided by Emily Post, and the public may be “cutting in” between Democrats and their top benefactor. A key strategic question for Democrats this fall is whether they jilt the public or organized labor.