What’s the last thing you would expect to hear in politics today? Obama switches parties? Reid says ‘shut it down and throw away the keys”? How about “Tea Partiers, union protestors share common core values”?

I did a double-double-take on that one when I saw that it was about a study produced by the new research arm of the Sam Adams Alliance (SAM), insightsLab. The study, entitled “Madison Unwrapped: Reading the union label,” focused on in-depth interviews with selected protestors representing Tea Partiers and unions at the height of the demonstrations in Wisconsin’s state capitol building in Madison.