Bayh’s Out and Edwards is In?
December 18th, 2006 by Carbon CoalitionAfter all the presidential noise this weekend, you would never know the election is actually two years down the line! Three potential candidates made the rounds in the Granite State this weekend.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson spoke to the Union Leader yesterday after making several stops around the state. He appears to be ramping up for a presidential run: “I know the media’s not taking me seriously right now. I know the pundits aren’t, and that’s fine with me…you’ve got to peak at the right time. I don’t want to peak now” (read more about Richardson’s trip here). Sen. Joe Biden spoke to Granite Staters calling for bipartisan cooperation in Washington. Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich echoed Biden’s remarks, saying he hopes the upcoming campaigns will bring “a new wave of ideas, a wave of solution,” for all candidates and both parties. Gingrich also announced that he will wait until next September to decide whether or not he will make an official run for president. He praised Romney, McCain, and Giuliani as being well-qualified contenders and he will wait to see if any of them have a strong advantage before he makes a decision. (Read Gingrich article here and Biden article here.)
Sen. Evan Bayh who was in New Hampshire last weekend, announced on Saturday that he will no longer attempt to run for president in this upcoming election. He explained, “the odds were always going to be very long for a relatively unknown candidate like myself,” and he acknowledged that it didn’t seem like he would be able to compete with better known contenders, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. Sen. John Edwards went the opposite direction–he plans to announce an official run sometime between Christmas and the New Year (read the entire article from the Union Leader here).
New Hampshire ski resorts aren’t alone in suffering from warm temperatures. This article in the New York Times reports that ski areas in the Alps are being hit hard by high temperatures. Two new studies have explained that these temperatures are something that should be taken seriously. One study shows that the Alps are the warmest they’ve been in 1,250 years, while the other study predicts that “an increase of a few more degrees would leave most Alpine resorts with too little snow to survive.” In fact, research has shown that the Alps are warming twice as fast as average worldwide warming, changing a 75% Alpine glacier advancement in 1980 to a now 90% glacier retreat.
