Did Trade Play a Role in Mid-Terms?

[Kevin Spidel]

Read this amaizing report just out. Very detailed! Download the report and charts here: http://spidel.net/blog/?p=908

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Trade Helped Put Democrats Over Top, Emerges as National Electoral Issue with More Than 25 Paid Ads and 115 Races Using Trade as Differentiator

Major Public Citizen Report Shows; Exit Polls Show Voters’ Economic Anxiety a Top Concern

WASHINGTON, D.C. – From Florida to Hawaii and parts in between, pro-fair trade challengers
Tuesday beat anti-fair trade incumbents, according to a major report on the 2006 midterm results conducted
by Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch division. Incumbents who had voted for the U.S. trade status quo
of NAFTA, WTO and Fast Track were replaced by those rejecting these failed policies and advocating
improvement with at seven Senate and at least 27 House seats being won by proponents of fair trade, and
perhaps as high as 44 total congressional seats once all election results are in.

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