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In reply to the discussion: Robert Reich on the Real Reason the Corporate-Friendly TPP Is Nearly Dead [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)105. Again, you post nothing to back up your opinion. If these polls are bogus, you should have an easy
time finding and posting polls showing the 'real' opinion of Democrats with respect to fast track and TPP.
So, in the end, you just couldn't help yourself from posting the bogus "Progressive Coalition For American Jobs" poll, after all.
FYI, the polling results from this 'bogus' organization are consistent in terms of Democratic support for fast track and the TPP with those of Hart poll which you term "halfway-credible source". What does that tell you? And you post no polling data to refute any of this - just a "messenger blast".
And has been already been pointed out several times on these forums, Pew Research is a pro-globalization polling service ...
Another 'messenger blast'. I have only seen posts from you expressing that opinion of the Pew Research. They poll on many topics. The few times they have polled on trade and trade agreements does not make them "a pro-globalization polling service" no matter how often you repeat that assertion. You just don't agree with their poll results so they must be discredited. I understand that.
The only halfway-credible source you list, the Hart Poll, suggests that, among Democrats, only Obama's most vociferous supporters might be like the TPP.
Actually the Hart Poll concluded that only "liberal Democrats" (not "Obama's most vociferous supporters", unless 'liberal Democrats' and 'Obama's most vociferous supporters' mean the same thing to you) were strongly in favor of TPA.
In the "halfway-credible" poll, a slim majority (52%) of Democrats supported TPA (with "liberals" being the only group in strong support), while 87% of republicans and 66% of independents oppose fast track. You may want to add the Hart Poll from your list of 'halfway-credible' polling firms to your expanding list of "pro-globalization" polling services. Their results are not what you like to see. Someone must work there whom can be used to discredit their results.
You sure you want to keep humiliating yourself like this?
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Robert Reich on the Real Reason the Corporate-Friendly TPP Is Nearly Dead [View all]
kentuck
Jun 2015
OP
As someone said the general public probably doesn't know what they are talking about
Rosa Luxemburg
Jun 2015
#74
Proponents of TPP on DU come on here and say, "Those jobs are going away TPP or no TPP."
Enthusiast
Jun 2015
#3
But you haven't decided your position on TPP yet because the details haven't been made public
LondonReign2
Jun 2015
#35
No ... I haven't taken a position on TPP because what is in it hasn't been made public ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2015
#38
He has not "sided against the party" since polls show most Democrats support TPP.
pampango
Jun 2015
#79
Rather than going after me, it would be helpful if you posted the polls showing opposition of the
pampango
Jun 2015
#99
I am sure that everyone appreciates your commitment to exposing my pratfalls. Even I appreciate your
pampango
Jun 2015
#102
Again, you post nothing to back up your opinion. If these polls are bogus, you should have an easy
pampango
Jun 2015
#105
You may be correct but look at what has happened to labeling our meat (food) products because
jwirr
Jun 2015
#43
You realize most anti-free-traders also support terminating the H1-B program, right? n/t
Chan790
Jun 2015
#64
already coming back, but to different parts of the country, with lower wages.
redruddyred
Jun 2015
#92
Wrong. When I asked my Senators about the TPP they both gave me bullshit but were sure
rhett o rick
Jun 2015
#72
The side that's standing on the track waiting to see if the train will really run over them. nm
rhett o rick
Jun 2015
#87
From the history of your posts, I assume you don't mind making favored partners out of anti gay
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2015
#112
they don't understand because they are among those who benefit from pimping off American jobs
Skittles
Jun 2015
#62
But I believe they do care, I have to. I love this country too much as I know they do.
raouldukelives
Jun 2015
#84
Yes! Trade can be used as a tool to improve global working conditions and labor while at the
Ed Suspicious
Jun 2015
#13
Let 'em cry protectionism. It's been so long since we have had protectionism, they no longer
Enthusiast
Jun 2015
#22
Agreed. And that's what Scandinavian countries do. Their RW populist parties want tariffs
pampango
Jun 2015
#80
They spent decades dirtying the tariff word along with the liberal word and others.
Enthusiast
Jun 2015
#23
I would agree. The tarriff is one of the tools that can be used and they take it away because
jwirr
Jun 2015
#71
When FDR reversed Herbert Hoover's high tariffs and proposed the International Trade Organization.
pampango
Jun 2015
#81
I love that idea. Regional businesses could still make a reasonable profit and supply jobs.
jwirr
Jun 2015
#46
Yep, just like NAFTA, CAFTA, the Uruguay GATT/WTO, Korea, and all the others.
Elwood P Dowd
Jun 2015
#49
ITO/GATT - FDR/Truman, NAFTA & WTO - Clinton, Korea - Obama, only CAFTA (the smallest) - Bush.
pampango
Jun 2015
#82
It's been unfettered, alright. Laissez-faire or whatever you want to call it,
Enthusiast
Jun 2015
#27
it's b/c fool me once shame on........ shame on you?.............. fool me we cant get fooled again
Romeo.lima333
Jun 2015
#30
You mean fake "free trade". Our so called "free trade" deals, including TPP, are nothing more
Elwood P Dowd
Jun 2015
#47
Do not stop calling Congress and Whitehouse to express opposition to these global corporate
Dont call me Shirley
Jun 2015
#55