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Loss of U.S. jobs to China becomes powerful election issue
In Pennsylvania, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Joe Sestak, accuses his Republican foe Pat Toomey of favoring China over hard-working Americans.
In a new website, the AFL-CIO pointedly tracks the loss of U.S. jobs to China and other cheap-labor countries.
With about a month to go more the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and their friends are pushing as a potentially pivotal issue the export of U.S. jobs.
They believe, or at least hope, it will resonate with American voters worried about the economy and their own financial futures.
