Well, under John Sweeney organized labor is, as you know, feeling its oats. Make no mistake about it, in terms of the Democratic party there are no ground troops other than organized labor.
Organized labor is the Democratic party on the ground.
Occasionally you have some trial lawyers putting some money in and you ve got some environmentalists and you ve got a little group of lefties in Massachusetts and a little group of movie stars in California and you ve got a little group of people up in Vermont and those are all nice, but basically the Democratic party is organized labor. Organized labor under John Sweeney is paying more attention to politics and to organizing. They ve done, I think, a good job. That has much more to do with the changing structure of the economy than anything else, but the fact of the matter is, this is going to be difficult for Democrats. Organized labor is critical, absolutely critical, and that s why everybody wants to get China WTO out of the way, at least everybody in the Democratic party.