Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University Los Angeles, noted that old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground union campaigning won out in the hotly contested Zimmer-Anderson race.
In the auto industry, as in politics, a third-party entry into a well-known, hotly contested race can cause significant consternation among the rank and file.
The hotly contested race occurred in a newly drawn Democratic-leaning Congressional district northwest of Chicago that Walsh moved into to avoid battling another Republican.