It’s amazing that even with these threads becoming longer and longer there are still people posting who say that this is not an issue. I don’t know if they have a personal stake at risk or if they are just “Free Trade” purists but one thing is for sure; If W does not do something or at least give the appearance that he plans on doing something, he is going to lose quite a few voters to anyone who puts this on their agenda.
There comes a time when the “you wanna throw away your vote” and “you’d rather have a RAT in the White House” arguments grow thin. The obvious answer is “No” but if our President is going to ignore something that has substantial impact to many of his constituents he has no-one to blame but himself for turning a blind eye and driving our votes elsewhere.
Over the years I've observed that facts, truth and reality make only a very small difference in peoples positions untill they become overwhelming. Even then, there will be those who will continue to invent a fiction to explain the discrepancy between their current state of mind and the state of the world arond them. We're all guilty of this to some degree, it's how rapidly and how well we overcome this tendancy that counts.
The truth is out there.