The WTO protests were also a milestone in the transformation of organized labor from the center-right to the left. The presidential candidate who stands closest to those opposed to the WTO is Patrick Buchanan, but one protest leader has said that ""Ninety-nine-point-five percent of those people are more likely to buy a pair of Nike sneakers with 'Sweatshop Made' imprinted on the back, eat a drowned dolphin tuna sandwich and vote Republican before they are going to vote for Pat Buchanan.""
See "Trade Disputes Could Sink Democrats' Hopes for 2000", Thomas B. Edsall, International Herald Tribune, December 9, 1999