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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Who hates trade treaties? Surprisingly, Not Voters.
09/21/2016
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September 21, 2016 | BY JACKIE CALMES
WASHINGTON — Few issues in this campaign cycle seem as toxic as trade: Both major-party presidential candidates oppose President Obama’s 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, and congressional leaders, having refused all year to vote on the trade accord until after the election, suggest they will not do so even then — potentially killing the largest regional trade pact in history.
So that must mean voters are overwhelmingly opposed, right? Wrong.
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