Poll: Candidates Advocating Clean Energy Have Edge On Competition

By AJ Swartwood - Talk Radio News Service

Recent surveys conducted in states where many of the tightest Congressional races are taking place show that the vast majority of voters support clean energy legislation and the candidates who advocate it.  

Wesley Warren, Director of Programs at the National Resource Defense Council Action Fund, and Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling, said that their organizations conducted surveys to discover how large an impact candidates’ stance on clean energy reform will have on the outcome of November’s midterm election. 

“When you want to know what voters think…just ask them,” Warren said. “They’ve said they would like their members of Congress to act on energy. They prefer clean energy and are more likely to support, by a wide margin, those candidates who do.” 

In 21 of 23 congressional districts polled, voters said they were more likely to vote for candidates who supported clean energy legislation than those who opposed it. 

It is no secret that American voters will hit the polls thinking about the economy and job creation, but figures reveal that clean energy advocates are making the case that a vote for clean energy is, in fact, a vote for new jobs. 

“Jobs are the number one issue on everyone’s mind… that’s one of the principal reasons to move America toward a clean energy economy is to create those jobs, ” Jensen said.

Pence Tells Tea Partiers To 'Remember In November'

A prominent House conservative told participants in the second annual 9/12 Rally in Washington yesterday that the Obama administration is using the recession to wage socioeconomic war.

“No American should face a tax increase in January…not one. We will not compromise our economy to accommodate the class warfare rhetoric of this administration,” said Mike Pence (R-Ind.), Chairman of the House Republican Conference. Pence told the roughly 100,000 in attendance to stand against President Obama’s attempt to allow a series of tax cuts for the wealthy to expire at the end of this year.

“We do not consent to higher taxes on any American in the worst economy in 25 years. When did higher taxes ever get anybody hired?”

Pence spoke at the same rally last year, which focused mainly on drumming up resistance to a healthcare reform bill that would later become law. This year, the message from Pence and other speakers, including conservative Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), was purely political.

Pence urged the audience to focus on voting out liberal members of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections, while Cuccinelli touted his own efforts to stop provisions within the aforementioned healthcare law from going into effect in his state.

The rally was organized by the conservative nonprofit organization FreedomWorks, along with a number of smaller local Tea Party groups. Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project played an additional role in helping organize the rally both this year and last.

Hoyer: Democrats Will Keep The House

By Sarah Mamula - Talk Radio News Service

Despite increasing doubt over the Democrats’ ability to keep their majority past November, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) remains confident.

“We will hold the House,” he stated firmly during his weekly briefing with reporters.

Hoyer and other Democrats are using a sound bite from Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, who said just days ago on Meet The Press, “We need to go back to the exact same [Bush] agenda.”  

Hoyer predicted the American public would not vote for the “Bush fail policies.”

“I don’t think that’s what the American people wanna do,” he said. “I’m convinced that they don’t wanna do that. They want [Democrats] to continue to create jobs and grow the economy.”

Hoyer promoted what he called the “Make It In America” agenda. According to the Majority Leader, the goal of the agenda is to encourage people to make goods and to expand manufacturing in the United States.

“If we make it in America, in terms of products, more people will make it in America in terms of opportunity and success,” said Hoyer. The agenda includes about 20 bills and would include tax benefits for companies, however, Hoyer stressed that exact numbers and dollars are yet to be discussed.

When asked about the biggest problem facing the Democrats this fall, Hoyer said it was inheriting “the worst economy in three-quarters of a century.”

He repeatedly spoke of the success the Obama Administration has had with a Democratic majority when it comes to addressing the struggling job market. “Over the last 6 months, we have had over 700,000 new jobs created as opposed to losing 786,000 jobs in…the last month of the Bush administration.” 

“The American public gets it. They know that President Obama inherited the worst economy of any president in their lifetime,” he added.