Support For Action on Climate Change Grows Among Swing State Voters

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Support For Action on Climate Change Grows Among Swing State Voters

By Shelby Kinney-Lang at VICE

https://news.vice.com/article/support-for-action-on-climate-change-grows-among-swing-state-voters

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Hart Research contacted 1505 likely voters by mobile phones and landlines in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, and North Carolina and found that 54 percent of voters were more likely to favor candidates who advocate for action on climate change.

"This year is really crystalizing just how much of a liability climate science denial has been," national press secretary at the League of Conservation Voters Jeff Gohringer told VICE News. "You see candidates across the country — whether it's Cory Gardner in Colorado or Scott Brown in New Hampshire — trying to muddy the waters of where they stand on climate change because they know climate science denial is bad politics that puts them wildly out of step with voters."

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Other green issues polled well. Sixty-six percent of swing state voters favored candidates who supported regulations to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. And 68 percent of them had favorable views of candidates who backed clean energy programs, like solar and wind.

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"I don't think it's possible for a climate change denier to hold the White House," Heather Taylor-Miesle, the director of the NRDC Action Fund, told VICE News. "I think that's why you're seeing all this 'I'm not a scientist' jargon, rhetoric by Republicans."




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1. Then why did they actually vote for anti science deniers in those states

too much about this election just doesn`t smell right.

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2. Because policies have very little influence on voter choice

It's depressing, but very well established.