By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 17:07:06 | Updated at 2024-11-15 19:48:46
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Climate Change Was the Big Election Loser
Taki's Magazine ^ | November 15, 2024 | Stephen Moore
Posted on 11/15/2024 9:04:42 AM PST by Salman
A few days before last week’s election, Bernie Sanders issued a dire warning to voters: “If Donald Trump is elected, the struggle against climate change is over.”
He had that right.
Climate change fanaticism was effectively on the ballot last week. The green energy agenda was decisively defeated.
It turns out that the tens of millions of middle-class Americans who voted for Trump weren’t much interested in the temperature of the planet 50 years from now. They’re too busy trying to pay the bills.
That result shouldn’t be too surprising. Every poll in recent years has shown climate change ranks near the bottom of voter concerns. Jobs, inflation and illegal immigration register much higher on the scale of concerns.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming
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Interesting analysis.
1 posted on 11/15/2024 9:04:42 AM PST by Salman
To: Salman
It turns out that the tens of millions of middle-class Americans who voted for Trump weren’t much interested in the temperature of the planet 50 years from now. They’re too busy trying to pay the bills.
The money quote.
2 posted on 11/15/2024 9:06:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Salman
Good. It’s just a boondoggle and a grift for the left.
3 posted on 11/15/2024 9:06:38 AM PST by kosciusko51
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