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    Voters Really Care About Climate Change

    For Democrats, climate change is now one of the two most important issues in politics, according to a new poll.
    by Robinson Meyer Feb 21, 2020 4 minutes
    Source: Mario Tama / Getty

    Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET on February 21, 2020.

    It’s not a fluke, an error, or an outlier. In poll after poll, the results are clear: Climate change is one of the most important issues in the 2020 presidential election.

    A new survey, released today and provided exclusively to The Atlantic, only drives the point home: Climate is the clear number-two issue—second only to health care—for Democrats who live in one of the upcoming primary or caucus states. Among all voters, the warming planet is now one of the most salient issues in American politics. The poll was conducted by Climate Nexus, a nonpartisan nonprofit group, in partnership with researchers at Yale and George Mason University, and included nearly 2,000 registered voters.

    Climate change now sits alongside only four other, a senior research scientist at Yale, told me.

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