Not surprisingly, Burner tends to reflect the political enthusiasms of her [netroots] supporters. Her opposition to international trade agreements is troubling. Like others opposed to free trade, she champions "fair trade" - a term of art for encumbering agreements with U.S.-dictated labor and environmental rules that would be deal-killers for major trade partners.

This stance would poorly represent the nation's most trade-dependent state - a major beneficiary of the North American Free Trade Agreement Burner opposes.