Mr Clinton's economic team, led by Bob Rubin and Larry Summers at Treasury, is by and large supportive of trade liberalisation, whereas the labour-union base of the Democratic Party is hostile.
The Democrats are hoping to capitalise on the Republican Party's disarray on the issue - and the perception that the party is hostile to Hispanics - to gain more of their votes.
On the one hand, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and most of the business community are broadly in favour of Britain's membership of the EU. On the other, a mostly eurosceptic Conservative Party is hostile.
Britain's Conservative Party, hostile to the EU's draft constitution and membership of the single currency, sits in the European People's Party block, made up mainly of continental Christian Democratic parties that are much more integrationist than the Conservatives.
Ms Rousseff, like her party, is instinctively hostile to anything akin to privatisation.
Another seven of his 27 party members are known to be hostile to the latest deal.
This is pushing Latinos away from the Republican Party, which they view as hostile to immigrants, and toward the Democrats by default.
He found that there was a widely held belief, especially among those from a Caribbean background, that the party was indifferent, or even hostile, towards them.
An already hostile Greek media is asking if Syriza is a party that could ever run the Greek state.
Although some Liberal Democrat ministers are reported to be open to the prospect of relaxing the rules on GM food, the party's grassroots has previously been hostile to the technology.
But very few people participated and the Conservative Party's response to the idea was hostile.
What happens next revolves around a congress next week of the ruling Independence Party, a broad centre-right coalition hostile to EU membership.
The Republican party is a coalition, but it has not divided into hostile camps.
That means the moderate Democrats in the House and Senate who are up for re-election this fall will be wading into an even more hostile political climate than when they initially bit the bullet to back their party last year.
She also said the party had to understand that "people are much more sceptical and much more hostile about the idea of the state spending money on their behalf".
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