This morning the 2,000 AFSCME members from around the country who are in Washington, D.C., for the 2007 Leadership Conference listened intently as the top Democratic presidential candidates each made their case for why they should be president – and why they deserve AFSCME’s prized endorsement.

AMERICAblog’s Joe Sudbay calls AFSCME “a major union that knows how to play politics.” Check out his coverage of AFSCME’s presidential forum on AMERICAblog, and read Jonathan Singer’s live post on MyDD.com. You can also read about it on MSNBC.com’s “First Read” blog and on the New York Times political blog, which notes the importance of AFSCME’s endorsement. Speaking of which, the forum has just ended and members are now participating in a town hall forum where they’ll discuss the candidates.

UPDATE: additional coverage from around the web:

• Visit the Presidential Forum page on AFSCME.org for news coverage, video clips, photo galleries and more
• MSNBC’s “Super Tuesday” page features several video clips from the forum
• Chris Matthews blogs about the event on Hardblogger
• Workers Independent News speaks with AFSCME’s Ethan Rome (listen to the audio at this link)
• NBC’s Andrew Merten and Jenny Anzelmo check in at MSNBC’s First Read as did NBC News political director Chuck Todd
• Ana Marie Cox at Time’s Swampland blog

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