SEIU’s effort to launch a third party to counter North Carolina’s blue dog Democrats has failed:

A defiant move by one of the nation’s most powerful unions to help oust Democrats who voted against the health-care bill by establishing a third political party in North Carolina has failed because organizers did not collect enough signatures to qualify for the November midterm elections.

The way things are going under the Obama administration, SEIU will probably push for card check for actual elections, citing this as prima facie evidence of anti-union bias.