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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 07:10 PM Aug 2016

Support for TPP Grows as Americans Become More Familiar With Trade Deal

Morning Consult, by Ryan Rainey

Americans are paying more attention to the debate over the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership as the general-election season kicks off, but they’re split on whether they support the trade deal, according to a new Morning Consult poll.

Still, more than half (62 percent) of registered voters surveyed from Aug. 8 through Aug. 10 said they had heard little or nothing about the agreement, which would cut tariffs in the trade bloc and establish new rules on issues such as intellectual property, labor and government subsidies. If Congress approves TPP, the pact with trading partners such as Japan, Malaysia, Canada and Mexico would be a major addition to President Obama’s foreign and economic policy legacy.

More than a third of those surveyed (35 percent) either somewhat support or strongly support the accord, compared with the 22 percent who oppose it. Forty-three percent either didn’t know how they felt about it or had no opinion.

This month’s results mark a slight shift in TPP supporters’ favor when compared with a March poll that found 72 percent of surveyed registered voters either hadn’t heard of TPP or didn’t know much about it. In that survey, 29 percent of respondents opposed TPP and 26 percent supported it.

Read it all at: https://morningconsult.com/2016/08/11/support-tpp-grows-americans-become-familiar-trade-deal/


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Support for TPP Grows as Americans Become More Familiar With Trade Deal (Original Post) yallerdawg Aug 2016 OP
Article: Why TPP Is a Bad Deal for America and American Workers CentralMass Aug 2016 #1
But a great deal for the billionaires, Wall Street, and the giant corps Elwood P Dowd Aug 2016 #2
+1 CentralMass Aug 2016 #3
Support for TPP Grows as American M$M Puts More Positive Spin On Trade Deal KamaAina Aug 2016 #4
Or, now that people can read it... yallerdawg Aug 2016 #7
don't think so... wildbilln864 Aug 2016 #5
Obsolete material. We can read it now! yallerdawg Aug 2016 #6

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
2. But a great deal for the billionaires, Wall Street, and the giant corps
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 07:28 PM
Aug 2016

who pay for all these positive articles pushing yet another corporate takeover masquerading as "Free Trade".

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
4. Support for TPP Grows as American M$M Puts More Positive Spin On Trade Deal
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 07:42 PM
Aug 2016

There. I fixed it for you.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
7. Or, now that people can read it...
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 07:53 PM
Aug 2016

the sky actually isn't falling!

And - believe it or not - a lot of Americans trust our president. He is a Democrat, you know.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
6. Obsolete material. We can read it now!
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 07:50 PM
Aug 2016

And by the way.

President Obama...Julian Assange...I think I trust Obama a whole hell of a lot more!

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