Stump Staple: Bashing Free Trade


	Stump Staple: Bashing Free Trade

Andrew Gillies

10-30-2008 11:53 AM

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National Journal's Peter Cohn details just how dirty the words "free trade" have become on the campaign trail. Story notes that in one ad from the Democratic party, Elizabeth Dole, a Republican U.S. senator representing North Carolina, is referred to as "the senator from China."

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