And the winner of the Climate Virtual Town Hall is...
Last week Miss Julie and I hosted a MoveOn house party in conjunction with the Live Earth events around the world. We hosted several dozen people, half of whom were people we hadn't met before (and were super nice). One of the things we were asked to do was show the Virtual Town Hall candidates forum. The Dem candidates offered up an opening statement and then took questions from MoveOn members. [Note: the question posed to Barack Obama was asked by -- surprise! -- Robert Reich.] Anyway, when all was said and done, MoveOn asked everyone to vote online for their favorite candidate.
From Moveon.org:
Here are how members ranked the candidates' plans (remember, this does not imply a MoveOn endorsement):
Sen. John Edwards—33.10%
Rep. Dennis Kucinich—15.73%
Sen. Hillary Clinton—15.71%
Sen. Barack Obama—15.03%
Gov. Bill Richardson—12.60%
Sen. Joe Biden—3.06%
Sen. Chris Dodd—3.01%
Sen. Mike Gravel—1.78%
Woot!
Edwards beat's the next two combined! MoveOn's doing a commercial thanking the top three. Conspicuously absent will be Barack Obama. Shocking really. I thought Clinton would be left behind.
But seeing how second place is a three-way tie within less than one percentage point, I'll bet they see their way to opening it up a bit. That's only fair.
That’s interesting. While Edwards has one of the three most progressive policy approaches to manmade global warming causes (with Dodd and Richardson) Richardson beat Edwards 90% to 80% on carbon reductions, 50mpg to 40mpg on fleet standards, 30% to 25% on renewable use, and 20% to 15% on energy efficiency, according to the League of Conservation Voters. Any idea why Richardson faired so poorly?
Makes me suspicious of the ranking.