This conclusion is not obvious to most people because jobs lost because of imports (or outsourcing, or factories relocating abroad) are more visible and more easily associated with trade than the jobs created by exports.

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Since the Congressional GOP survived this election unscathed, the obvious conclusion is that there is no penalty in a Presidential election year for tacking right these days.

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