Support for Expanding Energy Sources by Party

 Fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear, and the grid

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Pew’s new survey cuts through the noise: Republicans and Democrats disagree on everything in energy policy — except nuclear power. On solar, wind, coal, offshore drilling, and fracking, the partisan gap is a canyon. But on nuclear? It’s a crack in the sidewalk.

 

This chart shows it clearly:

Solar: +30 Dem advantage

Wind: +39 Dem advantage

Coal: +50 GOP advantage

Offshore O&G: +52 GOP advantage

Fracking: +45 GOP advantage

Nuclear: just 17 points apart

 

In a country fracturing along nearly every energy axis, nuclear is the one place where both sides are at least in the same ZIP code. Democrats like the climate upside; Republicans like the firmness, the industrial logic, and the national strength it implies. That overlap is tiny, but historically rare — and politically potent.

 

Grid Take: If you’re looking for the coalition that actually builds the next generation of American power infrastructure, this is it. Every other energy source is locked inside a partisan trench war. Nuclear is the only one still standing on common ground… and that makes it the most expandable, investable, and governable source in the entire portfolio.

 

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