Unions warn Obama: Tax on "Cadillac" health-care plan will keep our voters at home

“We are working furiously to ensure that the New York House delegation stand strong on this,” he added.

“On the political side, I can tell you — and this is not a threat — that union members and middle-class voters whose taxes go up because of their health care, or whose health care gets cut, are not going to turn out for Democrats in hotly contested elections.

“I think they just stay home.”