He was going to carry the South and California big, and I thought he would do well in the large industrial states, too, especially after the AFL-CIO endorsed him.

他后来在南方各州和加州更以大优势获胜。我相信在大的工业州他也会有很好的表现，尤其是劳联-产联表态支持了他。

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Instead, Damon Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel of the AFL-CIO and the Deputy Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), started some fireworks last Thursday.

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One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.

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While the Teamsters still has not issued an endorsement, the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers previously endorsed Gore.

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