Audience: Conservatives & Republicans

The Analyst Institute’s Get-out-the-Vote (GOTV) training offered a comprehensive overview of the most recent evidence to support your program decision-making, including on messaging, mode (and layering modes!), timing, and volume, along with tips for navigating a changing vote-by-mail landscape. The Lab also provided GOTV guidance specific for climate advocates.

This study examines how different sources of corrective information may correct such misinformation from Republican elites who blame renewables for power grid failures.

Use media behavior to learn how to reach and move people toward a narrative for all major household appliances and vehicles that is pro-electric. “Lifestyle conservatives” look like a key audience: Better understanding the factors underlying their consideration of and conversion to electrics seems important; this may point to supply-side work that needs doing. Excellent message research on EV’s exists: focus on the policy infrastructure for mainstreaming EVs means it may be of limited utility in understanding consumer choices for lifestyle conservatives, given how lukewarm they can be on government policy for just about anything; also any emphasis on climate is not likely to help here. Most important is to start making content: think about putting content out into the world and testing it with audiences in quick iterative loops that connect back to and constantly update strategic assumptions.

This post includes climate and environment headlines, data points, and key takeaways from recent public polls – including new polls of Western voters and young conservatives.