OPINION/COMMENTARY

Election 2004: The Missing Green Vote

Despite an unprecedented united effort from the nation’s leading environmental activist groups, the environment will have no significant impact in this year’s election for the White House, according to analysts with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA). “While polls consistently show most people consider themselves environmentalists, they also consistently rank the environment lower than almost every other issue,” said NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett. “And because the environment is not a critical issue for swing voters, the candidates haven’t spent a lot of time discussing it.” According to the NCPA, the leadership of dedicated environmental lobbying organizations are among the most partisan Democrat interest groups in the nation....