Corn on “Hardball”: What Wisconsin Means

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David Corn and Chris Cillizza followed Marty Beil, the executive director of the Wisconsin AFSCME, on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss the protests in Wisconsin and how the changing events there portend for similar situations in other states and the future of organized labor as a political force.

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