… Leah Stokes, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara studying public opinion and climate change, has research showing that congressional staff don’t have a handle on what constituents truly want. One of her team’s major findings is that aides who tended to meet more often with fossil fuel industry-backed groups did much worse than those who met with membership-driven environmental groups like the Sierra Club. This week, she explains her findings to Brooke and discusses the big gulfs in understanding where public support is and isn’t, and what role the media has to play in bridging those gaps. CONT.
On the Media