Organized labor maintains that its support and campaigning efforts were critical to Obama's win Tuesday, and hopes that the President elect will pursue labor's agenda. The AFL-CIO, for example, made 13 million household visits in 24 states in order to help garner the white working-class vote for Obama. In general, exit polls showed that Obama won among union members of population groups that he lost overall (such as white males). Labor supporters are now making legislation such as the Employee Free Choice Act, and an economic stimulus package that benefits the working-class their top priority for the Obama administration.
See "Labor Seeks Election Rewards", Michael A. Fletcher, The Washington Post, November 5, 2008