Tuesday, February 19, 2008

NAFTA May Be Obama's "Sleeper" Issue to Beat Clinton

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If there is a sleeper issue with the potential to catapult Barack Obama past Hillary Rodham Clinton in the remaining delegate-rich Rust Belt states, it is the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to political experts.

Many of the working-class white Democrats who form a pillar of Clinton's base blame the pact and trade agreements like it for the migration of the American manufacturing base to other countries. And it was her husband, Bill Clinton, who pushed it through Congress during his first term in the White House.

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