UNION PROTESTS IN WISCONSIN COULD AFFECT OBAMA'S CHANCES IN 2012

he protests in Wisconsin over Republican efforts to breach the last major bastion of organized labor state and local governments  are likely to reverberate in the 2012 election. But to whose advantage is anyone's guess.

Democrats say Gov. Scott Walker's bid to close his state's budget gap by gutting the power of the state's public employee unions, as well as similar efforts in more than a dozen states, have energized the party faithful, whose enthusiasm for President Barack Obama has waned from the heady and historic days of 2008.

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