Whether to revile or support nuclear power is an interesting dilemma. To be sure, it has lots of problems. However, if the alternative is coal, nuclear power pretty much wins on all fronts, including radiation (the amount of radioactive thorium released into the air by coal plants could generate an equal amount of energy if it were captured and used in a thorium nuclear power plant). That said, there are better alternatives.

In another tidbit from the study, if it is to be believed as a reflection of the attitudes nationwide, more Democrats (20%) believe that only 41% to 60% of climate scientists believe global warming is happening than those (18%) that 81% to 100% of those scientists agree.  Moreover, there is 10% that believe that only 21% to 40% agree.

Maybe even more telling about the electorate and the Democratic Party in general the largest group, 28%, reported not knowing enough to have an opinion.  Welcome to America.

Trope, if you read all the way to the end of the report, there were precisely TWO respondents who self-identified as both Democrats and Tea Partiers. I wouldn't read too much into that.

Puzzling methodology, though. If they were going to focus on Tea Party attitudes, why did they first exclude those who declined to self-identify as Democrat, Republican or Independent? It's obvious (to me) that a big chunk of those excluded might have self-identified as Tea Partiers, given the choice. Maybe the most dyed-in-the-wool Tea Partiers. Instead, the survey deliberately reduced its sample size, and increased its margin of error. Bizarre.