And what exactly does that have to do with my post?
I thought you were asking for evidence that Democrats voted against NAFTA. If that was not what you were asking then feel free to disregard my post.
My position is since a dem was the one who signed it into to law that obviously means it had support of dems.
We, as the people, usually think that who has the presidential seat, has the leadership of the party. We expect them to lead both their party and Congress into following the "gameplan" of how they want the country to be ran. This is just plain false, however, and shows a lack of basic understanding of how our government operates.
Generally speaking, the party leaders are all in places of power throughout Congress. You usually don't see party leaders running for a presidential office...why? Well, being president puts you at odds with Congress members more often than not. Both on the basis of trying to maintain the influence you have coupled with a basic belief in how our government was constructed (we have 3 branches of government built to counter each other, not 1 branch built to lead). These guys are usually the ones who influence the party and can great effect how they vote (do they need people to vote based off their constituent bases or based off of the party agenda) and what initiatives they push for. Now, in practice, some presidents have been able to relatively unify both their office along with Congress, but, more often than not, it just isn't the case.
With all that said, saying that a democrat signed something into office doesn't necessarily mean that the party supported it. Now, I wasn't following politics at the time, but, if you look strictly at the voting records, it looked like an issue that the party was relatively neutral on (at least in the House) and, so, allowed their members to vote based off their constituent bases rather than off party lines. Then again, this may have been before the time where the strength of Party Whips came into effect and the parties started to pretty much always vote based off of party stances rather than how their constituents may would like. Regardless, you can say that Clinton supported it, but saying that the Dems supported it is not an entirely true statement at all.
