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Nationally, China has long displaced Mexico and Canada as the millstone on trade issues. Although U.S. imports from Mexico have risen sharply since the early '90s -- from $48 billion to $216 billion in 2006 -- U.S. exports to Mexico have tripled to $156 billion during the same period. Last year, according to the Department of Commerce, trade with Mexico (America's second-largest trading partner) accounted for less than 10 percent of the trade deficit. http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2008/03/nafta-trade-debate-in-presidential-election-politics-mccain-clinton-obama.html?WT.mc_t=upd&WT.mc_n=O_408&channel=emailWith the Democrats having a chance of winning the White House later this year, it's maddening that both frontrunners are so vague in what the yet-to-be-determined winner would do. Both are "telling aggrieved members of their base (blue-collar workers) that they understand their pain, and they tell the more satisfied members of their base (globalists, Wall Street types) that they're not going to upset the manzana cart," says Slate.
