peter doocy is live with more on this. good morning, peter. good morning, patti ann. the polls are fresh as can be from monday and tuesday. they show the president and the plump tive gop nominee going slightly to obama. if the election held today 45 percent of florida registered voters would take obama for another term while 43 percent would vote for governor romney. the president is trending in the right direction leading governor romney by 6 points 35-39. which means the two candidates basically flip flopped their numbers since february when it was romney leading 44 to 38. john kasich a republican just endorsed governor romney yesterday. his support shouldn t move these numbers too much. union household backed the president by a wide margin 51 percent to romney s 35 percent.
jamie: you didn t tell me what the republicans will do about it. but we ll get back to that. we ll put up a poll. in the 2008 presidential election 21% of the votes came from union household. that s not insignificant, doug. what tony conveniently left out is the super pacs on the republican side are spending hundreds of millions of dollars for special interest contributions to nominate romney, gingrich or santorum. if they use a similar tactic to spread a message of fairness that strikes me as redressing the balance and ultimately a fair fight, not something tony should be condemning. jamie: how big a challenge will it be? this is what people don t
precisely the same power as corporations which is the epitome of a balanced decision which is what one would be looking for. megyn: so the unions don t like this, but they benefited from it, and the corporations as well. you know, they have the right to this free speech, in essence, is what the supreme court was looking at, and they said, they do. it also added one other power that s extraordinarily important to the unions because they have, they are a ground force. i mean, they work so hard for their candidates. for once they would go only to a union household, now they can canvas and solicit and campaign on every door in the that i could. megyn: they said with unions representing 11.8% of all workers, their volunteers canvassed in previous elections could only knock on one in ten doors. but now the unions spent $200 million in the 2008 election. right. megyn: they overwhelmingly supported president obama and the democrats.
and those in a union household, they are voting for santorum 46-25. but you also get a sense, for example, that democrats are voting for santorum, 53-17. my favorite is the strong tea party supporters are for santorum and people against the tea parties are for santorum. self described liberals for voting for romney but 43% are voting for santorum. you were saying back in 1988 the republicans did this to the democrats in michigan. that s right. a lot of republicans voted for jesse jackson in 88 and jackson ended up winning. i m pretty sure that s what happened there. it was the romney people, organizers, who demanded an open process in michigan so it s kind of they are kind of coming back on it. wait, wait, because i want to get one last thing and then we will come back and tell that story. arizona, are we underplaying? obviously this is the mystery. and michigan. we aren t talking as much about
14-point advantage they report having given him in november. in other words, scott walker s big gamble in wisconsin, picking this giant fight with the unions and the republican party s attempts to nationalize this fight and make it their coast to coast hill, this has not only caused scott walker s own party to peel away from him, it has electrified and unified the democratic base, bringing the democratic base home to the democratic party in a way that no other issue has in recent years. nationally, belonging to a union household has been one cater, not a particularly powerful cater, but one that that household may vote democratic. if union households nationwide get galvanized to bolt to the democratic party the way they have in wisconsin, then president obama s re-election campaign and every other democrat s election campaign in 2012 should probably cut scott walker a big fat thank you