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False hopes Are Obama and Edwards promising ponies?	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Hillary Clinton is getting in lots of trouble for some recent comments, but I suspect that while her message is politically doomed, there's some truth to it. Some background: At the debate, Clinton said that candidates shouldn't be creating "false hopes" among the American people. After the debate, Obama commented that that was like MLK, Jr., mounting the steps of the capitol and saying, "sorry guys, false hope. The dream will die." Then, today, in ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

New Hampshire prediction, guaranteed accurate to the tenth decimal	David Roberts	08 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Obama by 8, McCain by 3. Clinton in second, Edwards in third. Romney in second, Huckabee in third.
Topics: elections, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

What about the cities? Urban issue virtually absent from campaign; mayors speak up	David Roberts	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Ed Glaeser asks the presidential candidates: "What about the cities?" Last month, Clyde Haberman wondered the same thing. It's a good question. Every rural cornpone mom and pop in Iowa has had a candidate personally promise to put on their slippers on every morning, but what about the majority of Americans that live in urban and suburban areas? Turns out The Nation and the Drum Major Institute have just done a video project on it, interviewing ten U.S. mayo ...
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Green gap is more of a chasm The presidential debates once again highlight the obvious	Adam Stein	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Matthew Yglesias notes the environmental policy gap between Democratic and Republican presidential contenders: "On the Republican side, we have Mike Huckabee who thinks global warming is a serious problem but doesn't have any particular ideas about dealing with it." It strikes me as worse than that. When I read Andy Revkin's run-down of the weekend's debates, this made me want to get my shrill on: Mike Huckabee called for a billion-dollar prize for the fi ...
Topics: cars, elections, energy, fuel efficiency, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Hillary's poisonous NH cloud Clinton lobbied for tire burning near Granite State	Glenn Hurowitz	07 Jan 2008	Gristmill
With the New Hampshire primaries approaching, I thought I'd share this article about how Hillary Clinton's political style has directly affected New Hampshire voters in a way that might shed light on the kind of president she would be. The article was co-written with Friends of the Earth Action president Brent Blackwelder. ----- New Hampshire has for decades struggled to keep its air clean. But during 2005 and 2006, Hillary Clinton's ambitions collided with ...
Topics: air pollution, elections, Hillary Clinton, logging, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics)

Moving money in the economy More on climate policy in the Dem debate	David Roberts	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Responding to some of the comments on Dot Earth: Obama is right that a cap-and-trade program with 100 percent auctioned permits would be the functional equivalent of a carbon tax. Yes that does, in Richardson's rather daft phrase, "take money out of the economy," in the sense that any tax does. Happily, the other half of Obama's plan is to plow the money right back into the economy, reducing the financial hit on the working class, supporting renewable energ ...
Topics: Barack Obama, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, elections, Hillary Clinton, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Clinton v. Obama on energy Clinton hangs 2005 energy bill around Obama's neck	David Roberts	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Quite interesting that Clinton went after Obama specifically on energy tonight: You know, the energy bill that passed in 2005 was larded with all kinds of special interest breaks, giveaways to the oil companies. Senator Obama voted for it. I did not because I knew that it was going to be an absolute nightmare. Now we're all out on the campaign trail talking about taking the tax subsidies away from the oil companies, some of which were in that 2005 energy bill ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, energy, Hillary Clinton, legislation, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

DeSmogBlog owes Obama three apologies Obama is in no way 'George Bush Lite'	Joseph Romm	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I am a big fan of the climate website, DeSmogBlog. So I was shocked when, the day after his unprecedented victory in Iowa, DeSmogBlog gave Barack Obama 'the inaugural 2007 SmogMaker Award for blowing smoke on global warming.' Gimme a break. How could anyone win that award any year -- let alone in its inaugural year -- when George W. Bush is still president? [Not to mention a year in which Lomborg and Inhofe continue their influential disinformation compaigns!] A ...
Topics: Barack Obama, climate, elections, energy, George Bush, 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)

Carbon policy in tonight's Dem debate Obama puts the 100 percent auction idea into the mainstream	David Roberts	06 Jan 2008	Gristmill
There were presidential debates on both sides tonight. I don't have cable, so I didn't watch them. However, a friend sent along this bit of transcript from the Dem, from a question on climate policy: GIBSON: All right. Let me turn to something else. Reversing -- you invoked the name of Al Gore a few moments ago -- reversing or slowing global warming is going to take sacrifice. I'm sort of sorry Chris Dodd isn't here because he's talked a lot about a carbon ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, elections, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Wyoming caucus	David Roberts	05 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Two things you probably didn't know: Wyoming had a Republican caucus today. (The Dem caucus there is on the 8th.) Romney won it. Thompson came in second, Duncan Hunter third and no other candidate campaigned or got any support. There you have it.
Topics: elections, politics, presidential race 08, Wyoming (all these topics)

Dodd Man Out; Biden His Time No More Dodd and Biden drop out of race for Democratic presidential nomination		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:02 AM on 04 Jan 2008 After getting trounced in the Iowa caucuses yesterday, Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Joe Biden (Del.) dropped out of the presidential race. Dodd was the only candidate who supported a corporate carbon tax as a means to fight climate change; both Dodd and Biden supported a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 80 percent below 1 ...
Topics: Chris Dodd, elections, Joe Biden, news, 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)

The Republican primary endgame McCain will likely take it after all	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Republican primary race has been astonishing from the word go -- less the embarrassment of riches of the Dem side than just ... embarrassment. It's been a roller coaster. Nonetheless, I'm going to go on the record predicting that McCain will take it. Here's how I see it. Way back when, Santorum lost his Senate race and Bill Frist became a national joke and George Allen became a noncandidate thanks to macaca. At that point, everyone thought it was McCain's to lose ...
Topics: elections, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

The Dem primary endgame The candidacy is Obama's to lose	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
One hesitates to predict anything in a race this mercurial. But I think it's Obama's to lose at this point. Hillary's pitch was always "experience" and (left unstated) inevitability. It was never the experience that made her inevitable, though. It was something more like Dem voters' loss aversion. She has always been the Establishment Dem -- the known quantity. She didn't inspire people, but she was a safe pick, a model voters understand. She could get to ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Iowa Hearts Huckabee -- and Obama Too Huckabee and Obama win Iowa caucuses; what's the green angle?		03 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:38 PM on 03 Jan 2008 Mike Huckabee is the projected winner of the Iowa GOP caucuses, a surprising victory that puts him at the front of the pack in the Republican presidential race -- at least until the New Hampshire primary next week. Huckabee is one of just two GOP candidates who support a cap-and-trade system to fight climate change (McCain is the other), although Huckabee hasn't c ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Mike Huckabee, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Iowa called Huckabee and Obama have it	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Sounds like they've called the Iowa caucuses. Huckabee's the huge winner on the R side, with Romney an anemic second. Obama got a very narrow win on the D side (35%), with Edwards and Clinton effectively tied for second with 31%. Interestinger and interestinger. UPDATE: OK, the final looks like 37% Obama, 30% Edwards, and 29% Clinton. Clinton only won a single age group: 65+ Obama overwhelmingly won the under-30 crowd, which turned out in record numbers. The tota ...
Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Mike Huckabee, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Me in CiF	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
While I was vacationing, the Guardian's Comment Is Free site ran two pieces by yours truly, one assessing the climate issue as it manifests in the Democratic presidential field, the other doing the same for the Republican field. Check 'em out. (I continue to be mystified by the extraordinarily high level of fruitcakery in the comments over there.) UPDATE: I see that SolveClimate just made roughly the same point, and via them, AEI's Ken Green did the same. At least ...
Topics: climate, elections, energy, politics, presidential race 08, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Iowa	David Roberts	03 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Nervous.
Topics: elections, Iowa, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Survey says ... Two thirds of likely caucus voters in Iowa think conservation more important than coal	Sean Casten	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Iowa Interfaith Power & Light, the Iowa Farmers Union, and Plains Justice have just completed a survey (PDF) in advance of tomorrow's caucuses. Short version: Iowans think that we've squandered chances to do something meaningful about energy, and that it's time we started to do so before building new coal plants. The executive summary is below the fold, but it's worth having a look at the whole presentation.A scientific, phone-based survey conducted by Opi ...
Topics: coal, elections, energy, energy efficiency, Iowa, politics, presidential race 08, renewable energy (all these topics)

John ... I am your father! Darth Nader endorses Edwards instead of Green Party candidate	David Roberts	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Ralph Nader's endorsement of Edwards sure sounds more like an undorsement of Clinton. Questions: Is Nader's endorsal opposition to Clinton more irrelevant to her chances than another Nader presidential run would be, or the same amount of irrelevant? Will this cause Edwards to lose support, as Dem primary voters deploy the sensible heuristic that the opposite direction from Nader's political instincts is the best way to go? Is Cynthia McKinney pissed about ...
Topics: elections, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

Predictions for 2008: I 2008 will see another peaceful transfer of power in the U.S.	David Roberts	02 Jan 2008	Gristmill
((2008predictions_include)) Last year I made 20 predictions for 2007 and it brought me nothing but woe and discredit. Yet sadistic Grist higher-ups demand I wade into the forecasting muck again, no doubt insuring further humiliation. (Though not professional censure. Remember, pundits face no penalty for being wrong, only for being shrill.) This promises to be an especially perilous year for predictions. Much that happened in 2007 seems prelude, setting u ...
Topics: presidential race 08, elections, politics (all these topics)

Greens for McKinney Ex-Georgia Rep. to run for president on Green Party ticket	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Apparently Cynthia McKinney has announced a presidential run as Green Party candidate. This development is sure to have explosive effects on the presidential contest. And by explosive I mean negligible. (h/t: Sam Boyd)
Topics: politics, elections, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

What are they waiting for? A new site asks political talk show hosts to address climate change	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
In my introduction to Grist's presidential forum on climate, I mentioned a statistic that came to me from Gene Karpinski of the League of Conservation Voters: as of mid-November, Tim Russert of Meet the Press had interviewed presidential candidates 16 times, asking nearly 300 questions, and had not mentioned "climate change" or "global warming" a single time. LCV has continued to pursue the issue, and today they're launching a new site: "What ...
Topics: presidential race 08, elections, politics, climate (all these topics)

McCain Reaction Sen. Joe Lieberman endorses Sen. John McCain for president		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:02 PM on 17 Dec 2007 Used-to-be-Democrat-but-now-Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) has angered Democrats by endorsing Republican Sen. John McCain for president. The two men have similar views on the war in Iraq (pro) and terrorism (anti), but Lieberman says his endorsement was also for McCain's commitment to the environment and fighting climate change. The two joined their names to pen the first Senate b ...
Topics: climate, elections, John McCain, news, politics, presidential race 08 (all these topics)

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