Election "Crunch Time"

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)With less than two weeks to go, polling has the vote in swing state Virginia split in both the presidential and senatorial races. NoVA Labor President Dan Duncan is urging area activists to turn out for the final labor-to-labor door-knocking events -- including three staging areas in NoVA: Annandale, Fredericksburg and Prince William County -- and phone banks leading up to the November 6 election. “We need to keep the team of Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House” said Duncan (at right), reflecting on the 2008 race when a Democratic victory in Virginia – the first since 1964 – was announced just moments before the race was called for President Obama. With daily phone banks and weekend walks, NoVA Labor is hoping to once again be the tipping point in the election. “We have done it before in Northern Virginia,” says Duncan. “We will do it again!” Meanwhile, in Maryland, labor walks continue Saturday at UFCW 1994/MCGEO in Gaithersburg from 9A to 1P and at UFCW 400 in Landover, volunteers will gather at 9A and then leaflet Early Voting Centers in Bowie and College Park in support of labor-endorsed referenda. Click here for all area labor-to-labor events. - photo: Duncan talks to volunteer Herb Harris (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen/Teamsters); photo by Joyce Putnam (OPEIU 2)