Backlash Against Energy Exploration Hurting Republicans in West. By David Sirota, NYTimes, May 18, 2008. "Nearly two decades ago, Republicans won the West by linking Democrats to environmentalists, who supposedly cared more for the spotted owl and other favored species than they did for the jobs of loggers or miners. But now, as a boom in natural-gas drilling reshapes the region, Western Democrats have found success recasting environmentalism as a defense of threatened water supplies, fishing spots and hunting grounds. As a result, the party may hold the advantage this fall in the region's key Congressional races. The simultaneous rise of Western energy production and the Western Democrat is no coincidence."
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