President Obama opens the dialogue on climate in this election.
This should be a standard line in the stump speech, since politically it is a no-brainer.
Yale Project on Climate Communications:
• A majority of all registered voters (55%) say they will consider candidates’ views on global warming when deciding how to vote.
• Among these climate change issue voters, large majorities believe global warming is happening and support action by the U.S. to reduce global warming, even if it has economic costs.
• Independents lean toward “climate action” and look more like Democrats than Republicans on the issue.
• A pro-climate action position wins votes among Democrats and Independents, and has little negative impact with Republican voters.
• Policies to reduce America’s dependence on fossil fuels and promote renewable energy are favored by a majority of registered voters across party lines.
• These patterns are found nationally and among ten swing states.
Alas, a majority of registered voters doesn’t mean much, given the way presidential elections are conducted. What are the figures for the ‘battleground’ states?
see results above
If everyone voted in their own best interests, Obama would be the first President in history to win every single vote, even Mitt Romney’s.
Pages 3 and 4 don’t agree with page 6. I presume it’s the usual problem of getting conflicting answers from the same people according to the question.
BTW according to page 4, 75% of registered voters would be classified on this site as “deniers”, since they do not support “a large scale effort, even if it has large economic costs”.
Unfortunately in the tables at page 8 the “somewhat” and “very” categories are conflated, making the results hard to interpret (it all depends on the meaning of “somewhat”). Likewise for “moderate amount” and “medium priority”.
If you want to make up your own definition of “denier”, do it on your own site.