Climate voters could end up being an important part of what happens today. That’s a bit surprising considering how little either candidate has talked about climate change on the campaign trail.
Evidence that the campaigns may have underestimated climate voters comes from the Environmental Voter Project. The group hopes to mobilize a significant chunk of what it estimates are eight million “non-voting environmentalists” this year and in future elections: i.e., people who rank climate change as a top issue but are unlikely to vote. Polling from 2020 suggests first-time voters who care about climate change played an important part in Joe Biden’s victory that year. The Environmental Voter Project’s modeling further suggests that, among swing states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina have the largest proportion of unlikely climate voters. Tracking early voting, they found that 45,000 “first-time climate voters” in Georgia and more than 33,000 in North Carolina have already cast ballots, Grist reports—numbers that could make or break Harris’s........