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Americans Want NAFTA Renegotiated

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56% Want NAFTA Renegotiated, Americans Divided on Free Trade
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Over half of U.S. voters think the North American Free Trade Agreement needs to be renegotiated even as Republican presidential candidate John McCain prepares for a speech Friday in which he will hammer Barack Obama for saying the same thing.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken Monday night finds that 56% of voters support renegotiation while 39% say U.S. free trade agreements in general have directly impacted their families. Of that latter group, 73% say the impact has been a bad one, as opposed to 14% who say it was beneficial.

Only 16% of respondents favor NAFTA – a pact which came into being in 1994 and lowers nearly all trade barriers between the U.S., Canada and Mexico -- as is, with 28% undecided.
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While economists continue to debate the merits of NAFTA and its impact on the U.S. economy, voters surveyed this week in every age group, income level, range of education and political category overwhelmingly believe it needs to be renegotiated.

Even those most supportive of the NAFTA status quo – Republicans, self-identified conservatives, those of who have completed graduate school of some kind and people earning more than $100,000 per year -- believe by substantial margins than it needs to be reworked.

For example, while 62% of Democrats and 56% of unaffiliated voters think NAFTA is due for renegotiation, even 49% of Republicans agree. Fifty-eight percent of those earning less than $20,000 a year support negotiating the trade pact, and 43% of those who make more than $100,000 annually agree with them.
 

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