Reply #3: The union exclusion was already done before the

[karynnj]

election and the unions were making calls, but they could have seeing that the union made that an issue. If the early articles were right that the unions had agreed to not fight if the limit was $25,000, Baucus was an idiot to lower it and risk the firestorm.

I don't think the unions have been a monolithic Democratic vote for years, though they do usually go more than 50% to the Democrats. Here, you have a guy who presented himself like one of them and Coakley really did very little to reach out to them and there may be a wee bit of sexism going on here - though I know it is stereotyping to say so.