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“In the shadow of the economic crisis, a war of words rages over whether Obama will hold to his campaign promise of opening up NAFTA for renegotiation. The debate isn’t likely to stay in the shadows for long. Campaign attacks on NAFTA and candidate promises to renegotiate proved that demands for revision of the free-trade model have reached critical mass in U.S. politics. A post-election report from Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch heralded a net gain of 28 fair-trade members in the House and seven senators. Most of these politicians, it notes, didn’t just happen to be critical of the free-trade model. They actively ran on a fair-trade platform and won partly on that stance” – Carlsen in Foreign Policy in Focus