An instructive trip down Memory Lane…

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Huffington Post
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/28/bill-clinton-calls-arkansas-sen-blanche-lincolns-opponent-a-un/

Bill Clinton Calls Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln's Opponent a Union Tool
4 years ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Bill Clinton's message to Democrats here Friday about their heated two-way U.S. Senate battle was a simple one: a vote for incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln is a vote rank-and-file Arkansans, while a vote for Lt. Governor Bill Halter is a vote for outside labor unions and liberal activist groups.

Don't be fooled, Clinton told the gathering of about 300 at Philander Smith College. The big, national unions supporting Halter are "using you and manipulating your vote," he said.

Clinton returned to his home state Friday to lend support to the embattled Lincoln, who faces a contentious run-off with Halter on June 8. In the Arkansas Democratic primary earlier this month, Lincoln won 44.5 percent of the vote to Halter's 42.5 percent. A third candidate, DC Morrison, won 13 percent. The winner of the runoff will face Republican Rep. John Boozman in the November Senate election.

A Research 2000 poll for Daily Kos this week showed Halter with 47 percent of the vote, Lincoln with 44 percent and 9 percent undecided. Both trail Boozman in a November match-up.

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Clinton held up a copy of a Washington Post article and quoted from it about how national unions want to make Lincoln a poster child for "what happens when a Democrat crosses us." The former president argued that the unions nationalized what should be an Arkansas-focused Senate race.

And from HuffPo about a year ago, the title alone is enough:

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1. What's an "outside labor union" and what is it outside of?

Why do Democrats keep shooting themselves in the foot with unions, their biggest donors?

And this kind of thing, folks, is what keeps people who just might be to the left of Lincoln from getting elected. Lamont got this kind of treatment during the Democratic primary, too. It was not enough for Lieberman to win the primary, but it might have been enough to hurt Lamont some in the general.