By now, most of you lucky enough to live in one of the 24 states taking part in today's mega-primary have probably already voted. We at EnviroWonk are not one of the lucky millions eligible to cast a ballot today, though we'll be watching and posting tonight as the results come in. While it's basically a belated Super Bowl for political wonks everywhere, we're certainly not expecting much in the way of an environmental angle tonight. That goes for both candidates and commentators, though we're inclined to place more of the blame on the latter for what promises to be little, if any, environment and energy policy talk this evening.

Candidates answer the questions they're asked, and there obviously hasn't been a lot of asking going on about climate change, energy independence, alternative fuels and the like. Why the mainstream media continues to ignore it is baffling. We see no reason why it shouldn't have a place on the top rung of the primary season's issue ladder, next to Iraq, immigration and healthcare.

Plenty Magazine detailed the problem this morning, noting, as EnviroWonk did last week, that it might be too much to expect tough questions on climate change policy when the debates are sponsored by coal lobbyists. Plenty also references a good detailed analysis by the League of Conservation Voters that catalogued every question asked of a candidate by the major Sunday morning talk show hosts since January 2007. Of the 2,938 questions asked over the time span by Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer, George Stephanopoulos, Chris Wallace and Bob Scheiffer, six were about global warming.

Fear not, however. The reporters did deem climate change to be more than important than UFOs. That topic only came up three times.