Tammy Baldwin fought against every job-killing trade agreement since she has been in office.

[midnight]

"China and free trade is a hot topic in key elections this cycle in industrial swing states. Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, who has fought against every job-killing trade agreement since she has been in office, framed her whole race on China “they lead the world in cheating” and her consistent opposition to the offshoring of U.S. jobs. Now Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS is blanketing the state in direct mail falsely asserting that she voted to offshore jobs to China when she voted for the Obama jobs package in 2009. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio has cut some of the best “Made in America” ads around, an appeal based on a car whose parts are made all over Ohio, along with a tough ad on China currency manipulation -- an issue he has a long track record on.

As for President Obama, he has promised to bring 1 million manufacturing jobs back to America. He deserves credit for saving jobs in Freeport and other towns by applying trade sanctions on China to stop a flood of cheap Chinese tires. But he also pushed through Congress the Korea Free Trade deal and others objected to by the majority of his own party. Worse, the administration is in the process of negotiating another terrible free trade pact called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a NAFTA deal for Asia.

The good news is that according to the American Alliance for Manufacturing, America really can have a high-wage future in manufacturing. “The brightest minds at Harvard, MIT, and in the consulting community see enormous possibilities for American manufacturing. We're competitive in energy costs, labor productivity, and other factors. Reshoring has already begun,” and both Presidential candidates are being forced to discuss the issue wherever they go.

But Americans who want to secure that high-road, high-wage future will continue to have their work cut out for them."

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/10/11814/bain-capital-and-race-bottom-manufacturing-and-wages