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Did Clinton Win Ohio Primary On a Lie?
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 Did Clinton Win Ohio Primary On a Lie?
By Paul Rogat LoebSuppose someone in the North Korean government released a false story that shifted a key American election. If Bush were negatively affected, we might be bombing Pyongyang by now. But this just happened with what Hillary Clinton called “NAFTAgate” Without it, she might never have won Ohio, or her margin would have been minuscule.
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By Paul Rogat LoebSuppose someone in the North Korean government released a false story that shifted a key American election. If Bush were negatively affected, we might be bombing Pyongyang by now. But this just happened with what Hillary Clinton called “NAFTAgate” Without it, she might never have won Ohio, or her margin would have been minuscule. But as a Canadian Broadcasting Company story reveals, practically the entire story was a lie, one that played so central a role in Clinton’s Ohio victory that any claim she raises about emerging with a swing state mandate is thoroughly tainted.As the Ohio primary approached, Obama was steadily closing what a month earlier had been a 20-point lead in the polls. He argued that the NAFTA trade agreement, a centerpiece of Bill Clinton’s term on which Bill had staked his entire political capital, cost massive numbers of industrial jobs in Ohio and other manufacturing states. Instead of creating a trade-fueled boom, it helped hollow out America’s industrial base, with over 200,000 manufacturing jobs disappearing in Ohio since the 2000 election. Even Republicans I talked with while calling Ohio before the vote made clear that they thought NAFTA was a disaster.Given these sentiments, Hillary chose not to defend her husband’s actions, but instead claimed Obama was distorting her position because she’d privately opposed the agreement at the time, had “long been a critic” and now similarly supported stronger labor and environmental standards. Echoing her reinvention on the Iraq War, these claims were flat-out nonsense. As David Sirota points out, she’d praised NAFTA repeatedly in public settings from the time of its inception. And as Obama highlighted their contrasting positions and approaches on this and other issues, he was gaining in the pollsThen, on Feb 27, the Canadian network CTV reported that even as Obama was publicly attacking Bill’s role in NAFTA, and arguing for a drastic overhaul, he’d had key economic advisor Austin Goolsby arrange a meeting with the Canadian ambassador where Goolsby reassured them that this was all just “political positioning,” pandering for campaign trail. The likely source of the anonymous Valerie Plame-style leak was right-wing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Chief of Staff, Ian Brodie, and US media jumped all over it as proof of Obama’s hypocrisy. The Canadian embassy denied the story and Obama also said it was false. A follow-up March 3 leak then sent a supposed memo summarizing the meeting to the major US media outlets, quoting Goolsby as saying Obama’s statements were more “political positioning than the clear articulation of policy plans.”Clinton made the controversy a centerpiece of her home stretch speeches and ads, saying “You come to Ohio and you both give speeches that are very critical of NAFTA and you send out misleading and false information about my position regarding NAFTA and then we find out that your chief economic advisor has gone to a foreign government and basically done the old wink wink, don’t pay any attention this is just political rhetoric.” She even ran a radio ad that misleadingly presenting itself as a news story, which concluded, “As Senator Obama was telling one story to Ohio, his campaign was telling a very different story to Canada.” John McCain similarly attacked Obama for the presumed contradiction in his stand, as did Machinist’s head Tom Buffenbarger, one of Clinton’s key labor allies.The supposed scandal shifted the election by flipping voter perceptions on an issue where Obama should have had a key advantage. Instead, Clinton ended up getting a majority the 55 percent of Ohio voters who expressed a sense “that trade takes jobs away,” a majority of those worried about their family’s economic situation, and a majority of union members, whom Obama won in his recent victories. She won a 10 percent plurality in a state where Ohioans overwhelmingly picked the economy as the top issue. And she won overwhelmingly with late-breaking voters, the opposite of practically all of Obama’s other campaigns. Most important, by casting doubt on Obama’s integrity, the cornerstone of his campaign, they made him seem like just another hack politician who’d say anything to win. This gave the supposed scandal a probable impact in Texas and Rhode Island as well, even though NAFTA was less of a central issue there..
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