Dems Could Win Tea Party Voters Over With America-First Trade Message

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/6141/dems_could_win_tea_party_voters_over_with_america-first_trade_message/

Thursday June 24 2:11 pm

By Mike Elk


Lenore Grossman demonstrates at a Tea Party rally in Santa Monica, California on Tax Day in 2009. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)


A new poll contradicts the widely held belief that the the tea party movement is opposed to government action to help the economy. It shows that self-described Tea Party supporters are very much in favor of government action to revitalize America's manufacturing base.

Seventy-four percent of self-described Tea Party Supporters would support a "national manufacturing strategy to make sure that economic, tax, labor, and trade policies in this country work together to help support manufacturing in the United States," according to the poll, put out by the Mellman Group and the Alliance for American Manufacturing. Likewise, 56 percent of self-described Tea Party Supporters "favor a tariff on products imported from other countries that are cheaper because they came from a country that does not have to comply with any climate change regulations in the country where the products were made."

The poll also shows that President Obama's approval rating are 11 points lower among households were a family member is employed in manufacturing than a household where no one is employed in manufacturing. That underscores a trend already noted: those most affected by the Democrats' failure to deliver on their promises of trade reform are turning against the Democratic Party.

Why? The reason is that many feel betrayed by Democrats. Government inaction during the last thirty years has destroyed the core of the American economy: manufacturing.

Such is the case in my own hometown of Westmoreland County, Pa., where the loss of manufacturing jobs turned the county from a heavily white, heavily union, heavily Democratic county into a heavily white, heavily Fox New watching, heavily Republican County.

[Dawgs]

1. They could win ALL of America over with trade reform.

:hi:

[Sonicmedusa]

2. They could definately win ME over with that!

Now our Democratic White house wants to push a free tade agreement with South Korea. Who gives a rat's ass about American jobs?