Most Clinton voters think trade deals are good — and so do most Sanders voters
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/31/11338400/trade-poll-clinton-sandersBut a new Pew survey confirms that trade deals are broadly popular in the United States, especially with Democrats, and including with supporters of both Sanders and Clinton.
This is consistent with the view that such deals may have been very bad for a minority of Americans — people with jobs in Asia-competing factories and residents of communities built around such factories — who may be the only people for whom trade is actually a voting issue.
But this is important context for the future of trade policy, and raises the prospect that a Trump-Clinton general election could produce a larger realignment with Democratic officeholders joining rank-and-file Democrats in embracing trade deals while Republicans oppose them.
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The skilled trades are absolutely booming and completely hurting for people to work them.
If you believe inflation is low you are buying into the Government basket
Oh Lord, this again 
Fine, tell me which commodities and services you think BLS somehow forgot to include in their basket?
(Yes, housing, food, energy, education, and health care are counted)
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpifaq.htm
The CPI represents all goods and services purchased for consumption by the reference population (U or W) BLS has classified all expenditure items into more than 200 categories, arranged into eight major groups. Major groups and examples of categories in each are as follows:
FOOD AND BEVERAGES (breakfast cereal, milk, coffee, chicken, wine, full service meals, snacks)
HOUSING (rent of primary residence, owners' equivalent rent, fuel oil, bedroom furniture)
APPAREL (men's shirts and sweaters, women's dresses, jewelry)
TRANSPORTATION (new vehicles, airline fares, gasoline, motor vehicle insurance)
MEDICAL CARE (prescription drugs and medical supplies, physicians' services, eyeglasses and eye care, hospital services)
RECREATION (televisions, toys, pets and pet products, sports equipment, admissions);
EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION (college tuition, postage, telephone services, computer software and accessories);
OTHER GOODS AND SERVICES (tobacco and smoking products, haircuts and other personal services, funeral expenses).
Also included within these major groups are various government-charged user fees, such as water and sewerage charges, auto registration fees, and vehicle tolls. In addition, the CPI includes taxes (such as sales and excise taxes) that are directly associated with the prices of specific goods and services. However, the CPI excludes taxes (such as income and Social Security taxes) not directly associated with the purchase of consumer goods and services.
The CPI does not include investment items, such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and life insurance. (These items relate to savings and not to day-to-day consumption expenses.)
For each of the more than 200 item categories, using scientific statistical procedures, the Bureau has chosen samples of several hundred specific items within selected business establishments frequented by consumers to represent the thousands of varieties available in the marketplace. For example, in a given supermarket, the Bureau may choose a plastic bag of golden delicious apples, U.S. extra fancy grade, weighing 4.4 pounds to represent the Apples category.
. . . but it makes an awesome bash. See Michigan and probably Wisconson.
It's nice to know that we are not alone in the broader non-DU world. 
now are particularly opposed to them but that was obvious without looking at poll numbers.
Of course, republicans seem to be more opposed to almost all international agreements (climate agreements, the Iran agreement, Cuba, etc.) so it's hard to know how much of their opposition to free trade agreements is based on a broader opposition to ALL international agreements and how much is specific to trade agreements.
It is interesting to see the similarity in the numbers for Hillary and Bernie. I wondered if many Democrats support Bernie for his positions on many issues other than trade. Apparently so. I know I do.
This popular support from Democrats may be why Obama is pushing for an early vote on the TPP while republicans, recognizing popular opposition within their base, are pushing to delay a vote until after the election or later, if ever.
From the Pew site:
Among Republican voters, Trump supporters stand out for their negative views of free trade: 67% of Trump supporters say free trade agreements have been a bad thing for the U.S., while just 27% say they have been a good thing. Republican supporters of Ted Cruz (48% good thing vs. 40% bad thing) and John Kasich (44% good thing vs. 46% bad thing) hold more mixed views.
By a 58% to 31% margin, more Clinton supporters say free trade agreements have been a good thing than a bad thing for the U.S. Views among supporters of Bernie Sanders are similar (55% good thing vs. 38% bad thing).
