Moving out West, Nevada, as usual, ran about five points more Democratic than the pre-election polls indicated. What Nevada polls have continually failed to register is the mobilization capacity of the nation’s most effective local union, Culinary Workers Local 226—the Las Vegas hotel workers unions, 57,000 strong. There’s simply no American organization better able to turn out voters, nor, for that matter, any American union that’s won better contracts for service-sector workers. Had there been comparable unions in swing states the Democrats lost yesterday, the electoral outcomes may well have been different (which, of course, is the main reason Republicans are driven to stamp out unions).
