Clean Energy may not be the top issue facing voters at the polls today in the 2010 mid-term U.S. Congressional elections, yet many of the candidates running for office have been including clean energy policies to their platforms to attract votes from their constituencies.

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An October 2010 Poll released by the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund showed that voters in 23 close Congressional races overwhelmingly support clean energy legislation and would be more likely to support candidates who do the same.

Upon looking further into the poll results, the NRDCAF polling found that voters are almost 20% more likely to vote for candidates who support a clean energy bill. While 20% may not sound like a large number, in a year where 92 Congressional races sit in the “lean” or “tossup” columns on The Cook Political Report, that number is a big deal. On top of that, a majority of voters (nearly 53%) in close races around the country said they were likely to vote for a candidate who supports a climate bill.

While the main talk of this mid-term election is the Tea Party activists and candidates versus the Obama “transformation of America” platform, the fact is that many Americans are today thinking about the environment and ways clean energy, renewable energy, green energy and alternative energy can be better implemented to make the world a better place, starting at the ballot box.