Environmentalists Tend To Have Bad Voting Records And Lie About It

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The word "environmentalist" usually conjures up an image of passionate activists ready to hold their leaders and community accountable for responsible environmental practices.

It turns out that’s not totally accurate. Voters who say the environment is one of their top two most important issues tend to have pretty abysmal voting records.

Nathaniel Stinnett founded the Environmental Voter Project in Boston, which looks at voters’ habits and patterns. He joined WBUR to discuss his findings.

Bob Oakes: What did you find out about voters who self-identify as environmentalists?

Nathaniel Stinnett: In the 2016 presidential election, about 68 or 69 percent of registered voters turned out to vote. The problem is only 50 percent of environmentalists turned out to vote.

In the 2014 midterms, only 21 percent of environmentalists voted. We’ve got a big turnout problem.

Read the entire article at:

http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/08/23/environmental-voters

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1. That's interesting.

And troubling. That's a demographic we need to target to get out and vote.

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2. It would be interesting to know where they get their data.

I'm not sure polling would work if one conclusion is that they lie about it. The only real data would have to come from comparisons of actual voter data by individual any gathered information of their individual activity. Lying acusations always skew data.
Maybe true, maybe not.