[SJackson]

Why is this happening? With voters provoked for years by such figures as Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot, "there’s been a steady erosion in Republican support for free trade," former Rep. Vin Weber, now an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, told me yesterday....Humor alert.

Determining what Republicans think by consulting non-Republicans. There's a lot of that going around.

[Ben Ficklin]

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[SJackson]

The actual question.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/WSJ-POLL-20071003.pdf

10. Now I a going to read you two statements about foreign trade, please tell me which statement comes closer to your point of view.

Statement A: Foreign trade has been good for the U.S. economy, because demand for U.S. products abroad has resulted in economic growth and jobs for Americans here at home and provided more choices for consumers.

Statement B: Foreign trade has been bad for the U.S. economy, because imports from abroad have reduced demand for American-made goods, cost jobs here at home, and produced potentially unsafe products.

Statement A 32%

Statement B 59%

Some of both 6%

Neither 1%

Not sure 2%