Majority of Americans Increasingly Opposed To Free Trade

This is one of the most unbelievable poll results reports that I have ever seen. Can anyone exactly show me where the hell in any of the questions it talks about FREE TRADE. The questions asked are all about foreign trade and the headline is American against free trade. Totally inaccurate reporting.

In the second paragraph of the source I had used, it had said that 51 percent of Americans have viewed foreign trade as a threat. In that same paragraph, it explains that it is the first time that a CNN poll results show that the majority are holding a negative towards free trade.

The original source on the CNN Political Ticker seems to have placed free trade and foreign trade as the same thing.

My point exactly, the story here is not that the "majority of Americans oppose free trade" but how the media has manipulated polling results to create a story. Instead, you have just spit out the results without really looking into it.

If you are going to report on something, you should investigate your sources. Honestly, look at the picture that accompanies this post. It highlights NAFTA which is the North American Free Trade Agreement, and has absolutely nothing to do with foreign trade in the least. I say it again, totally inaccurate reporting.

CNN’s poll results were obtained by giving survey respondents misleading question (see below). — There is one undisputed fact: A majority of Americans feel free trade is a threat to the economy.

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CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll. June 26-29, 2008. N=1,026 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"What do you think foreign trade means for America? Do you see foreign trade more as an opportunity for economic growth through increased U.S. exports or a threat to the economy from foreign imports?"

To once again, clarify my position, this story is inaccurately reported on the CNN website and the re-gurgitated here on DJ, again reporting the same inaccuracy.

The question asks about foreign trade and foreign imports and then splashes its conclusions that Americans are opposed to free trade and therefore this whole free trade issue will become a problem for John McCain. The real story should have been how CNN uses one word in their poll i.e., "foreign" and twists it around to report on their website "free" and then avers that this is going to cause the Republican presumptive nominee problems because he supports "free trade".

If you look at the history of FREE TRADE in the United States of America, it has done nothing but benefit them. If you look at the history of FOREIGN TRADE (i.e., IMPORTS) in the United States of America, it has done nothing but cause problems. Case in point, the problems in the auto industry ... have nothing to do with FREE TRADE and everything to do with FOREIGN IMPORTS. The destruction of small town American stores by the big box stores (WalMart) has nothing to do with FREE TRADE but everything to do with FOREIGN IMPORTS. The recall of defective and poisoned products on American shelves has nothing to do with FREE TRADE but everything to do with FOREIGN IMPORTS.

John McCain does not support the massive importation of cheap Japanese cars; nor does he support the destruction of small town America or the poisoning of American pets and toothpaste. He does however, support the free trade agreement, But according to CNN and now, according to Digital Journal, foreign trade (i.e., the importation and/or exportation of goods and services to and from, Asia, Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East, etc. etc.) is now covered under NAFTA (otherwise known as the NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT) and John McCain supports this.

Why don't we all just perpetuate these crazy stupid myths, and while we are at it why don't we talk about Obama taking the oath of office on the Koran, or how he went to a madrassa?

The real issue here is NAFTA, not the Koran.

Recommended reading:
March 03, 2008
Los Angeles Times:

“Yet there is growing wariness among the public that the U.S. is giving away more than it’s getting. After all, the nation has lost 3.1 million manufacturing jobs since 1994, and its trade deficit with Mexico and Canada has risen to $138.5 billion last year from $9.1 billion in 1993.”

Time to re-negotiate NAFTA?
NAFTA contributed to the economic demise of Ohio that relies heavily on the manufacturing industry. This is why organized labor, environmental groups and some U.S. politicians want to renegotiate NAFTA.

Yeah free trade screwed Ohio big time, but it was only a means for escape for companies being bullied by unions.