A strong majority (66 percent!) of young independent voters, ages 18 to 34, accept as dogma that man and his dirty deeds are causing, and will continue to cause, this according to a study conducted by a bipartisan pair of political strategy groups for the League of Conservation Voters.
As a Republican party strategist I believe that Republican candidates, Republican elected officials, need to find ways to demonstrate tolerance and understanding of what a young generation of voters need to see occurring, said Greg Strimple of GS Strategy, to .
has a nice breakdown of the studys broad strokes:
Among those unfavorable to the president, 56 percent still supported him taking action on climate change.
79 percent said they were more likely to vote for a candidate who supported taking action on climate change; 73 percent they were less likely to vote for someone who opposed climate action plans like the presidents.
It wasnt just Democratic respondents who thought climate change deniers were out of touch: 74 percent of Independents and 53 percent of Republicans used the words ignorant, out of touch, or crazy to describe deniers.
Only 26 percent bought the argument that action on climate change would kill jobs, while 65 percent said they thought taking action on climate change would create jobs.
So this is wonderful news, right? Maybe, maybe.
Battle-scarred by lost climate fights of yorethe 2009 defeat of Waxman-Markey still stingsIm cynical about these kinds of studies. And not just because of the notion that people will tell pollsters anything to get off the phone.
We millennials, we like to think were cool and hip, part of the in crowd, and that were at least sitting at the cool kids table.
And so when a pollster calls us and asks us questions about being against climate changeit means wed have to be against settled science, against saving ourselves and our future, which means wed have to side with eight shades of crazy.
But were not stupid. We know climate change is realthat it isnt, as some deniers have said with a straight face, .
All that said, I worry if, when polled, these young Americans simply decided to sit at the cool table? That they didnt want to admit theyre against climate change, and that theyre for insanity.
Will young voters actually make climate change the deciding issue when picking a candidate? Will young Republicans ever actually cross the aisle to vote for a Democrat because their candidate is firmly anti-science? Will young, self-identified Democrats in coal-loving, Blue Dog districts actually vote for a green, progressive candidate in the primary?
Come the 2014 midterm elections, will any of these young voters actually vote the way they told a pollster they would in July 2013?
Stay tuned.
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