The Colombia pact: President Bush confuses an already raucous contest over his successor by forcing a free-trade vote

摘要

"In most parts of the country, free trade is a dirty word," Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan political analyst, told the Houston Chronicle {'Free-trade plan with Colombia likely to cause stir,' 6 April). Bennett Roth, of the Chronicle's Washington Bureau, noted that exit polls taken during the 4 March primaries in Texas and Ohio would seem to confirm this view. He wrote, "Some 81 per cent of Ohio voters who participated in the exit polls said NAFTA took away US jobs. Even in Texas, which has been more friendly to free trade, 59 per cent said NAFTA had cost American jobs."