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Politico: Purple Reign?

  • April 22, 2016
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

A PPI survey was one of the topics of discussion in Politico’s Morning Trade.

Veteran Democratic pollster Peter Brodnitz says there’s a big misconception about how voters view trade, noting a new Progressive Policy Institute poll that shows 65 percent of swing voters in four battleground states think manufacturing jobs have been lost to cheap labor competition overseas, not bad trade deals.

“There’s a very big difference between the perception of where the electorate is [on trade] and where the electorate actually is,” Brodnitz said. He added that respondents favored trade deals with strong labor and environmental standards.”

Read the rest of the article at Politico.

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