Report · Nov 29, 2023
Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics & Policy, Fall 2023
By Anthony Leiserowitz, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal, John Kotcher, Emily Goddard, Jennifer Carman, Marija Verner, Matthew Ballew, Jennifer Marlon, Sanguk Lee, Teresa Myers, Matthew Goldberg, Nicholas Badullovich and Kathryn Thier
Filed under: Policy & Politics
1. Global Warming as a Voting Issue
1.1. Most registered voters would prefer to vote for a candidate who supports action on global warming.
If given a choice, a majority of registered voters (57%) would prefer to vote for a candidate for public office who supports action on global warming, while only 16% would prefer to vote for a candidate who opposes action, and 26% say it doesn’t matter either way.
Nearly all liberal Democrats (95%), a large majority of moderate/conservative Democrats (86%; an increase of 10 percentage points since we last asked this question in April 2022), and about half of Independents (52%; refer to data tables, p. 43) would prefer to vote for a candidate who supports action on global warming, as would 46% of liberal/moderate Republicans. In contrast, only 13% of conservative Republicans would prefer to vote for a candidate who supports action on global warming (a decline of 10 percentage points since April 2022), while 44% of conservative Republicans would prefer to vote for a candidate who opposes action.
