Strange night all around yesterday. We watched the results come in at a bar, which thanks to the absence of sound, turns out to be the best venue for election night political television. When you've got an endless crush of raw voting data, electoral maps and bright, shiny, moving graphics already on the screen, who needs volume to hear Wolf, Keith and Karl Rove tell us that with the exception of McCain taking command of the GOP race, there's a lot still up in the air?

That uncertainty made for some interesting "victory" speeches toward the end of the night. Obama and Clinton obviously had no idea who would hold the delegate lead when the dust settled (it's still unclear this morning), so they both essentially gave upbeat campaign speeches. Of note, both Democrats touched upon environmental policy, including climate change. This came as somewhat of a surprise, given the absence of the subject from two previous Democratic debates.

Here's what Obama had to say:

"And we will harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all. And when I am President, we will put an end to a politics that uses 9/11 as a way to scare up votes, and start seeing it as a challenge that should unite America and the world against the common threats of the twenty-first century: terrorism and nuclear weapons; climate change and poverty; genocide and disease."

Clinton was more brief in her remarks on the topic, saying "I see an America where we stand up to the oil companies and the oil-producing countries, where we launch a clean energy revolution and finally confront the climate crisis."

On the GOP side, Reuters has a good piece this morning on how climate change is slowly working its way into Republican rhetoric. It certainly isn't hurting McCain, by far the greenest of the GOPers.

Finally, we had some technical difficulties with the Super Tuesday poll last night. Hopefully it will be back up this afternoon -- it's not too late to let us know which candidate has captured your heart!

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