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ScienceDebate 2008 Update: 3/8/08

From an email sent by the ScienceDebate 2008 folks:

All three remaining campaigns have now contacted us and are considering our invitation.  They’re starting to consider what you knew all along:

Any credible vision for a sustainable and prosperous, secure national future depends on a President’s ability to capture the public’s imagination on the major policy questions, questions like climate change and economic competitiveness in a global low-cost science and technology economy, like clean energy and education and healthcare and biodiversity and scientific integrity and the recently released Grand Challenges from our friends at the NAE.  These questions are of great concern to the American public, and debating them will be an important way to win the moderate swing voters that will determine the outcome of this election.

Please take a moment and do everything you can to encourage the candidates to attend Science Debate 2008, and to tell others about our initiative.

  • Email, call the Obama campaign at (866) 675-2008, and write to Obama for America P.O. Box 8102 Chicago, IL 60680
  • Email, call the Clinton campaign at (703) 469-2008 and write to Hillary Clinton for President 4420 North Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22203
  • Email, call the McCain campaign at (703) 418-2008 and write to John McCain 2008 P.O. Box 16118 Arlington, VA 22215


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ScienceDebate 2008 Update

A couple of months back, I wrote about an effort to get a debate about science policy scheduled.

There’s been some progress on the idea. A date and location has been officially announced. Now all it needs are the candidates to show up and amaze us with their handle on science policy.

More below.

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