In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 53 percent said free-trade agreements have hurt the U.S. Only 17 percent in the latest survey thought free trade agreements between the United States and foreign countries have helped the United States. The skepticism is increasing.  As recently as 1999, the same survey found 35 percent thought trade deals helped Americans and 32 percent thought they hurt the U.S. "Even Americans most likely to be winners from trade-upper-income, well-educated professionals, whose jobs are less likely to go overseas and whose industries are often buoyed by demand from international markets-are increasingly skeptical," according to the Journal article published on Monday. "We've got to tell corporate America that if they want us to buy the products they produce, they've got to start manufacturing those products here in the United States," Sanders told a Capitol Hill press conference last week.

On MSNBC, Bernie reminded Ed Schultz that "during the Bush years, alone, we lost 30 percent of our manufacturing jobs." The number of U.S. factory workers plunged from 17 million to about 12 million, fewer than at any time since before World War II. Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a modest proposal to stem the flow of jobs overseas. Bernie would go further. He wants a total turnaround in U.S. trade policies that unfairly tip the scales against American workers in favor of other countries and multinational corporations.