Study: Republicans Don’t Care About Warming Planet

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Maybe this just confirms what you already knew, but a new study by Pew shows that Republicans don’t care about global warming. Only 12% of Republicans in the January 2008 poll thought dealing with global warming should be a “top priority,” as oppposed to 47% of Democrats and 38% of Independents. In fact, global warming was the issue Republicans cared least about.

For a Mother Jones summary of where the candidates, Republican and Democrat, stand on issues like global warming, check out our “Primary Colors” package here.