"A group of big Democratic donors, including Esprit co-founder Susie Tompkins Buell and Taco Bell heir and Democracy Alliance head Rob McKay, have publicly pressured Obama to reject the pipeline. Billionaire Tom Steyer, who poured money to help Terry McAuliffe win the Virginia governor’s race last year, ran an anti-Keystone ad during the State of the Union and is expected to spend millions of dollars more.
But Obama isn’t running again and several moderate Senate Democrats, including Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, Mark Pryor and Kay Hagan, already support building the pipeline. It’d take an anti-Obama talking point off the table and avoid the possibility of an international spat with Canada.
Greens also realistically have nowhere to go — even if disappointed on one issue, a Democratic president and Senate is far better than anything the GOP can offer them. About 56 percent of Americans support building the pipeline, with 41 percent opposed, according to a poll conducted in November and December by Stanford University and Resources for the Future. But those numbers may be squishy — environmental issues generally rank far below topics like jobs, the economy and health care when it comes down to how much voters care.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/barack-obama-keystone-options-102956.html?hp=l3
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