Economy Over Climate Change, 85-12

That's the finding of a USA Today/Gallup poll reported in SeattlePI.com.

Which do you think should be a higher priority for the Obama administration right now?

85% Improving the economy
12% Reducing global warming

At Publicola, Josh Feit consider the implications of the survey for the legislative session.

So far, the left’s agenda in Olympia this year seems more blue than green. When a supergroup coalition of lefties (dubbing itself Rebuilding Our Economic Future) showed up in Olympia last week to protest the budget, no environmental groups took the stage with the union members, health care advocates, education leaders, and financial aid students.

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[Coalition spokesman Sandeep] Kaushik tells me that was an accident and the environmental community is part of the coalition that’s working out a platform and message on the budget.

I’m sure they are. But I do wonder if the issue that seemed to be the zeitgeist during the last half of this decade has suddenly been displaced in our state.

It wouldn't be the first time that fiscal reality forced a change in strategy and priorities. The public gets it.