bargaining. to what extent it is going to be the political issue in 2012? i doubt it is going to be an issue wide. the president is stuck on this issue. he has governors who preside overstates, battle ground states that prohibit collective bargaining. while this is a convenient political target for him in the short run, kick around walker in wisconsin, it is a bad issue for him because he has to explain why he would be happy to stand on the same stage with democrat governors who have done nothing about removing the statutory bar. indiana, daniels 2005 ends collective bargaining for all state employees by executive order and declares his intention to reduce the level of state government employment to the level of 1978. miss numbers because of that and other decisions go down to 37% approval. yet his numbers come back up when people realize this is not as bad as was depicted