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Per Hirsh incentives Newsweek political journalist transcribes McCain campaign spin on energy	David Roberts	29 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Last October, Barack Obama laid out a detailed, ambitious, and comprehensive energy plan, and he's been talking about it ever since. A couple weeks ago, John McCain let loose a flurry of one-off energy gimmicks -- a gas tax holiday, offshore drilling, a prize for a car battery -- which he crammed together under the heading 'the Lexington Plan.' According to Washington Wise Man Michael Hirsh, in a mash note that would embarrass a crushing tween, that puts Obama on th ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

'It is now' Obama lays out an energy vision that's economics and security first	David Roberts	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
I just read the energy speech Obama gave on Tuesday in Nevada. I'd call it a TKO if I didn't sound so unconvincing using boxing metaphors. Watch what he leads with: "A green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future, it is now."This is what the campaign, correctly in my judgment, has decided people need to hear first and foremost: It's happening. People just like you, who live around here, are getting jobs doing this stuff. The Ob ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Voters' Voices: Oregon Talking with voters in Portland about the environment and the election	Melinda Henneberger	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: David Grant This is part of a series of dispatches from Melinda Henneberger, who's talking to voters around the U.S. about their views on the environment and the election. Portland, Ore. -- Oh, the indignity of tooling around environmentally aware Portland in a big-dog SUV, in between conversations about the environment. Even the guy at the rental-car counter was apologetic: 'I know,' he said, when I gulped at the news that my economy car ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, Oregon, politics, presidential race 08, Voters Voices (all these topics)

Trouble in paradise? McCain criticized during Florida trip for opposing funding for Everglades restoration	Kate Sheppard	09 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Visiting the Everglades has become de rigueur for presidential candidates hoping to shore up environmental cred in Florida, the nation's most populous swing state. But Republican presidential candidate John McCain's trip to the wetlands on Friday seemed to generate only bad publicity. Last year McCain opposed legislation that included funding for Everglades restoration and urged colleagues to let Bush's veto of the bill stand. And last week he didn't do a particul ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Florida, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Plane dealer McCain asks Obama to plane-pool to joint town-hall meetings	Kate Sheppard	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Now that Barack Obama has the Democratic presidential nomination in the bag, John McCain says he wants to get the general election rolling. This morning, McCain invited Obama to join him for 10 town-hall-style meetings throughout the summer. In a conference call with reporters this afternoon, McCain said the 'old-fashioned, traditional town-hall meeting' would 'change the debate in America.' McCain says he'd like to ride-share (might one call this 'plane-pooling'? ...
Topics: Barack Obama, John McCain, Muckraker, politics, news, elections, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Obama wins enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination Obama claims nomination, but Clinton says she's not going anywhere yet	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Photo: wfiupublicradio Barack Obama secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, passing the threshold of 2,118 needed to become the party's candidate. 'Because you chose to listen not to your doubts or your fears but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations, tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another -- a journey that will bring a new and better day to America,' Obama said in his victory s ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A Friend Indeed Friends of the Earth Action endorses Obama; candidates spar over		03 May 2008	News
"gas tax holiday" Posted at 2:54 PM on 03 May 2008 Green group Friends of the Earth Action endorsed Barack Obama for president on Saturday, citing his principled stand against a temporary suspension of the gasoline tax. "The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race," said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. "The two other candidates respon ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

How I Spent My Summer Tax Vacation McCain, Clinton support summer gas-tax rollback		29 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 5:39 AM on 29 Apr 2008 Hillary Clinton. Photo: Marc Nozell U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain have said they support temporarily suspending the federal excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel over the summer to ease the impacts of high fuel prices on consumers. McCain indicated he would shift revenue from other sources to cover the estimated $9 billion dip in highway infrastruct ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, news, oil, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Primaries thread	David Roberts	04 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the thread to discuss all things election related this evening. To kick things off: Obama wins Vermont, handily, as expected. From what I hear the other three are tight. UPDATE: According to CNN, McCain has won Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island, thereby securing the Republican nomination. Guess Huckabee should have majored in math after all. UPDATE: Clinton projected to win Rhode Island. UPDATE: CNN is projecting that both my children are now in bed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Ohio, politics, presidential race 08, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont (all these topics)

Obama and Clinton discuss border wall in last night's debate Will the next president stop construction on the border wall?	Glenn Hurowitz	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last night's debate included some good news for the embattled wildlife and landscape of the Southwest. In response to a question about whether or not they would slow construction of the border wall under construction in the Southwest, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton criticized the wall as ineffective and counterproductive. Obama went so far as to say he would 'reverse that policy' of building a wall, while Clinton criticized the wall as 'absurd' and s ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, endangered species, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, national security, politics, presidential race 08, wildlife (all these topics)

Presidential campaign footprints under scrutiny Confused Washington Times disses McCain and Obama on lack of carbon offsets	Joseph Romm	20 Feb 2008	Gristmill
In a bizarre twist, the conservative Washington Times, which would normally be critical of fuzzy environmental strategies like carbon offsets, is actually attacking the candidates for not offsetting all their campaign emissions. Opening with an absurd headline, 'Green crusades lot of talk,' the Times writes: Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have called for strict mandatory limits to control greenhouse gases but they aren't leading by example -- each has failed ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon offsets, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Wisconsin goes to Obama and McCain	David Roberts	19 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The Wisconsin primary goes to Barack Obama and John McCain -- both got about 55%, to Clinton's 43 and Huckabee's 37 respectively (Ron Paul got his usual 4). That's Obama's ninth victory in a row. Clinton's chances of reversing this tide are looking slimmer all the time. On that note, both winners seem to be gearing up for the general. McCain said, 'I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent but empty ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Super Troopers Troop On The green take on Super-Duper Tuesday		05 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:46 PM on 05 Feb 2008 Coming out of Super Tuesday's primaries and caucuses in 22 states, the Republicans are looking ever more likely to nominate their most eco-conscious candidate, John McCain, who was the big GOP winner of the day. But green issues don't seem to have played much if any role in the Republican voting, and McCain didn't reference anything environmental in his speech to supporters at the end of the night. ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

She'll Be Comin' Down on the Mountain Clinton and Romney win in Nevada; McCain wins in South Carolina		19 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:21 PM on 19 Jan 2008 Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama to win the Democratic caucuses in Nevada on Saturday, getting 51 percent of the vote compared to Obama's 45 (and John Edwards' dismal 4). The economy was the top concern among Nevada voters surveyed, but the environment may have played a role too. Clinton tried to gain an edge in the state by touting her pledge to shut down th ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

A thought out of season Noise, signal, and the presidential election	Tom Philpott	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Say David is right and the 2008 presidential election comes down to Obama vs. McCain. That means we're looking at historic, though frankly probably inadequate, climate-change legislation. On foreign policy, McCain has been an abysmal apologist for the Iraq debacle. That doesn't bode well. But Obama, to prove he's not a weak-kneed liberal, might be goaded into taking crudely aggressive stances -- just as Bill Clinton seemed to take a poke at Iraq every time Monica-g ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

How will climate play out in an Obama v. McCain race? Will climate wash out as an issue or help the greener candidate?	David Roberts	04 Jan 2008	Gristmill
If we end up with an Obama v. Romney/Giuliani/Thompson race, the green dynamic will be simple. The guy who wants to do something about global warming vs. the guy who prefers the energy status quo. But if, as I'm now (wildly and irresponsibly) predicting, it's an Obama v. McCain race, the dynamic shifts in some interesting ways. If you're a pessimistic sort, you might guess that McCain's early and courageous advocacy on climate change will neutralize the climate issu ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Iowa, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

How Green Is Your Candidate? Interviews and info on the presidential candidates' environmental positions		06 Jul 2007	Grist Feature
Updated 13 Jun 2008 Forget boxers or briefs. You want to know about candidates' stances on energy and the environment, right? Well, you've come to the right place. Compare the candidates' green positions using our handy chart. And get more in-depth info by reading our interviews with the candidates and checking out fact sheets on their environmental platforms and records. ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, John McCain, politics, presidential race 08, Ralph Nader (all these topics)

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