Tariffs were very strong American worker wage protection, HENCE corporations hate tariffs.

[pampango]

48. You are really good at titles for your posts. :)

And your response to those poll results is equally predictable. You cite evidence of how Democratic congresspeople voted on trade agreements. I have acknowledged before, and will again, that you are correct.

As I have said many times those polled by Pew were not politicians or congresspeople. They were voters. Tea party politicians have routinely betrayed their base with their votes on trade agreements. Surprise, surprise.

From Think Progress:

Most Tea Partiers Think Free Trade Agreements That Tea Party Candidates Support Are Bad For The Country

What’s ironic about most tea partiers opposing free trade is that numerous high-profile tea party-endorsed candidates are ardent backers of the policy. From sitting U.S. senators to relatively unknown individuals who have become serious candidates for higher office, politicians who have co-opted the tea party movement do not share its view on free trade.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/09/30/121808/tea-partiers-trade-bad/

At any rate the reason for my posting those poll results was to show partisan attitudes about US policy towards China.

In one poll a majority of Republicans (51-44%) favored getting tough on China (tea partiers were an even more lopsided 66-30% in favor of a tough approach), while a majority (61-32%) of Democrats favored a policy of building a stronger relationship with China. Quite a difference between Democrats and tea party republicans.

The other poll showed an overwhelming majority (67-26%) of Romney voters preferred a 'get tough with China' policy, while Obama voters still favored a "build a stronger relationship" by a 51-42% margin. I don't think any of us really think that Romney would have really gotten tough with China, but that is what his voters overwhelmingly wanted him to do.