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“(Reuters) – In 1992, Bill Clinton used the phrase ‘it’s the economy, stupid’ to win the White House amid a recession. Sixteen years later, his wife Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination by promising relief from more hard times.
Clinton and Obama served up economic messages this week in Pittsburgh, a steelmaking center in Pennsylvania, whose April 22 primary is the next stop in the Democratic contest to face Republican John McCain in November’s presidential election.
Appealing for labor backing from unionized steelworkers, Clinton promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and to get tough with China over counterfeiting and currency and industrial policies she said were the cause of trade deficits and U.S. job losses.
Obama also offered tough talk on NAFTA and China, railed against lobbyists and chief executives who took home huge pay packages while cutting jobs, and told steelworkers he had witnessed 1980s mill closures in Chicago and understood their plight.”
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