WASHINGTON (PAI) - Clinton? Obama? Or (highly unlikely) McCain?

The AFL-CIO has reaffirmed that it won't be endorsing a candidate for president before there's more of a consensus choice among its affiliated unions. And like the situation among the U.S. electorate, that's not expected to happen before either Democratic candiate has gained a majority of delegates or before the party's convention in Denver in August.

AFL-CIO spokeswoman Denise Mitchell Mitchell said in a memo this month that the AFL-CIO needs votes of unions representing 67%, or two-thirds of its members to make a presidential endorsement.

"Some of the unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO strongly support Sen. (Hillary) Clinton and others strongly support Sen. (Barack) Obama. Earlier, some…endorsed John Edwards. Most of our 56 affiliates have not made a primary endorsement. Respecting the varying views…we have not endorsed," Mitchell explained.

The race for president isn't the only political choice voters face. The AFL-CIO's 2008 political plan will cost $56 million-$60 million, be in more than 500 races nationwide, and have a theme of "Turn Around America."

Democrats hope to add to their lead in the U.S. House and Senate by targeting anti-worker lawmakers seen as vulnerable. The political plan includes up to 10 U.S. Senate races so far, including previously unlikely campaigns against incumbent Republicans in Mississippi (Roger Wicker), Alaska (Ted Stevens) and Kentucky (minority leader Mitch McConnell).

It also will include, as of now, 55 U.S. House races, three governorships, hundreds of state legislative races and dozens of referendums. McEntee says it will also include combating the Radical Right's so-called right-to-work initiatives and "paycheck deception," designed to evict workers from participating financially in politics. Michigan is expected to be a key battleground on that front.

Without a presidential candidate to endorse, the AFL-CIO said it would focus for now on getting out the vote, focusing on other races and defining Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

"In the absence of a clear Democratic candidate, it is very clear that McCain is an extension of George W. Bush's failed policies for the middle class," said AFL-CIO Political Director Karen Ackerman. "We know it's very important to communicate with our members at their worksites on his record: That he's voted for every trade deal that's come down the pike, that he voted against SCHIP" - the children's health insurance program whose expansion Bush vetoed - "and that he voted against raising the minimum wage."

Another component of the "turn around America" drive, will unite several top issues into one common theme: The need to elect new leadership to set the nation on a new pro-worker course. Those issues are universal and affordable health care, the right to organize and bargain collectively, fair trade not free trade, and the right to secure jobs.

If the Democratic primaries are any indicator, union mobilization and turnout this year may exceed their 2006 success. Then, 200,000 get-out-the-vote union volunteers hit the streets in the closing weeks and one-quarter of all voters were union members or their families - double the union percentage of the workforce.