Dems Should Campaign On Trade And Jobs, Not On Being Like Republicans

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/dave-johnson/57612/dems-should-campaign-on-trade-and-jobs-not-on-being-like-republicans

Dems Should Campaign On Trade And Jobs, Not On Being Like Republicans
by Dave Johnson | August 14, 2014 - 7:37am

Watch this video of a smart politician who knew how to campaign in the Midwest. He know what people were thinking had his finger on the pulse of what people wanted to do about it:

A recent Politico story, “Running as a Dem, sounding like a Republican,” says that many Democrats are campaigning by trying to “appeal to more conservative voters.” They are talking about cutting back on spending, tax cuts for businesses and going after immigrants.

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The Populist Majority website populistmajority.org has several polls that show a path to election victory that uses trade and manufacturing:

* 65% consider outsourcing, rather than a potential shortage of skilled workers, as the reason for a lack of new manufacturing jobs.
* 73% favor offering companies a tax break for every job they bring from overseas to the US. (Republicans filibustered this in July.)
* 72% believe the Trans-Pacific Partnership will help large corporations, while 64% think it will hurt America’s small businesses.
* 79% support enforcing trade agreements.
* 79% cracking down on unfairly subsidized imports.
* 77% support tax incentives for manufacturer investments. (Republicans filibustered this in July.)
* 84% support a concerted plan to make sure that economic, tax, education and trade policies in this country work together to help support manufacturing.
* 60% say the US needs to “get tough” with countries like China in order to halt unfair trade practices, including currency manipulation, which will keep undermining our economy.
* 71% support increasing government investment to build and repair roads, bridges, high-speed rail, smart electric grid technology and other infrastructure needs.

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The public gets it that our NAFTA-style trade agreements have sucked jobs out of the country. They get it that we need a national plan to restore our manufacturing ecosystem. They get it that we need to invest in maintaining and modernizing our infrastructure. Republicans are on the wrong side of all of these.

[MisterP]

1. "so ... we CAMPAIGN on trade and jobs, and THEN act like the GOP once we're in? sounds great!"