As Democrats prepare to make the case to the American people why they should continue to be in charge in Congress and add the Executive Branch to their responsibilities, I think it is time we talked about one very important policy that a strengthened Democrat majority and Presidency would result in.

The Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 (known by detractors as "Card Check") is a piece of union-love that Democrats rammed through the Congress along partisan lines that would have removed secret ballot elections from the unionization process. From an article I wrote about this subject as Congress debated...

Labor Unions are attempting to justify the removal of free and fair elections in the unionization process. Secret ballot elections, though not perfect, are the best means with which to insure each man has just one vote. The thinking goes that since secret ballot elections are not perfect, we should do away with them altogether. In their place, according to the Unions, should be a system called "Card Check".

The "Card Check" system (referred to by the Unions "The Employee Free Choice Act") would allow union organizers to personally administer and collect union ballots. This would ostensibly remove the possibility that employers might attempt to coerce employees from voting for the effort. Of course that onus would then fall upon the union organizers. Furthermore, the legislation proposed in the House of Representatives would punish employers that attempted to make their work places better with improvements to benefits and working conditions.

Showing the power of the Presidency, the legislation met a veto when it arrived on President Bush's desk.

Now, a new poll released late last week asked Americans what they thought about the idea of removing secret ballot elections from the unionization process.

We discovered that 79% of the American people support a worker's right to a federally supervised secret ballot election when deciding whether or not to join a union.

The tri-partisan agreement to defend this right is overwhelming, as 77% of Republicans, 82% of Democrats, and 79% of independents believe in protecting private ballots.  Support for private ballots was so broad it also spanned every subgroup examined, including majorities of every age, race, geographic group and both genders.

It is telling that more Democrats disapprove of their own party's legislation than do Republicans. "Card Check" strikes at the core of classical liberalism that says that a vote should be taken and all votes counted on all significant matters.

This issue represents yet another example of how leaders in the Democrat Party our out of sync with the rest of their party.