claim: forty percent of union members voted republican in 2008.
author: bill kristol
evidence_1: jul 1, 2014 ... barack obama over sen. john mccain in the 2008 presidential election. we can  update nate's analysis. in the 2012 network exit polls, union households voted  for obama by an 18 percentage-point margin (58 percent to 40 percent), and  obama won the nonunion vote by only a 1-point margin (49 percent ...
evidence_2: jan 11, 2017 ... first, an average of about 40 percent of union members and their families have  been voting republican in presidential elections for a long time, with the ... clear  that a significant number of white working-class people voted for trump who had  voted for obama in 2008 or 2012 — even if more just didn't vote.
evidence_3: jun 12, 2015 ... 38. $50,000-90,000. 31. 46. 52. $100,000 & over. 28. 44. 54. union  household. yes. 18. 58. 40. no. 82. 49. 48. education. some hs. 3. 64. 35.  hs graduate. 21. 51. 48. some college. 29. 49. 48. college graduate. 29. 47. 51.  postgraduate study. 18. 55. 42. party. democratic. 38. 92. 7. republican.
evidence_4: sep 13, 2012 ... today, only 11.8 percent of american workers are union members; in the private  sector, just 6.9 percent. .... both democrats and northeastern republicans,  whose districts were then home to tens of thousands of union members, to vote  for medicare, the voting rights act, and anti-poverty programs.
evidence_5: obama, edwards, clinton. 43%, first-time iowa caucusgoers, 26, 30, 24. 22%,  labor union member in household, 30, 24, 30 ... vote can be best described as ...  based on questionnaires filled out by 1,646 voters across iowa as they entered  republican caucuses on thursday evening. the survey was conducted by  edison ...