This blog is cross-posted at StewartAcuff.com
There is no doubt that President Obama did not bring his A game last night. He wasn’t aggressive enough. And Romney was a model of lying and dissembling and aggressiveness.
BUT THE MAP, GEOGRAPHY, and DEMOGRAPHICS FAVOR US AND THE PRESIDENT.
THIS ELECTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE ABOUT US, OUR FAMILIES, OUR JOBS AND OUR COUNTRY – NEVER ABOUT ONE MAN.
We need to organize hard like never before. We’ve had to fight before and we gotta fight now. There are plenty of stories of how to win in my book Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing.
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Stewart Acuff is America’s best-known and foremost labor organizer. He is the former organizing Director of the AFL-CIO. Acuff has also written two books: Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing, and Getting America Back to Work, coauthored by Dr. Richard Levins.