From Congress Daily:
Sources say that the hope is to strike a deal on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement and pass it before the election. That’s a complete pipe dream, however. Trade votes are anathema to the Democratic base, and there’s no way they will allow the deal to be revived before the election now that it is mostly dead. There may be a chance of passing the agreement in the lame duck session after the November election, but that can only happen if John McCain wins; if a Democrat is the victor than the unions will insist on reframing the deal completely. And as we have seen, it’s also possible that if there’s no deal, the Colombia FTA will simply become a campaign issue. The question then becomes whether Democrats believe the Latino vote is threatened enough to warrant action.
