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Wisconsin: Worked-Up Unions (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Quoted: If Walker enraged organized labor, Obama?s health-care reforms and economic stimulus programs ?helped mobilize the conservative base and contribute to their resurgence in ?09 and ?10,? says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ?You?ve got an unhappy middle class, unhappy with their situation. They were looking for someone to improve it, and then they were disappointed when that didn?t happen.?