Refuting A Big Election Lie: The Claim That Supporting Clean Energy Doomed House Democrats
Among post election stories, this reaction at Politico really left something wanting in the correlation-is-not-causation department:
House Democrats who voted for last year’s cap-and-trade bill took a beating last night. Nearly 30 (and counting) who cast ‘aye’ votes for Waxman-Markey were swept away on Tuesday’s anti-incumbent wave. The casualties ranged from 14-term Rep. Rick Boucher to freshman lawmakers like Betsy Markey, Mark Schauer and Tom Perriello.
The implication here is that in an elec