According to Democratic operative James Carville on CNN (May 2007) "Every Democratic candidate believes in evolution." (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/08/acd.01.html)

There is no statement on Dennis Kucinich's campaign web site about the teaching of evolution and creationism in the science classroom or any recorded response to a question on the teaching of evolution. Kucinich has stated in the past that he believes in the separation of church and state.

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Kucinich for President: A Kucinich administration would immediately put the United States in the forefront of solving the global warming crisis by rejoining the Kyoto accord and implementing its recommendations. On the domestic front, I am an original co-sponsor in the House of Representatives of HR 1950, the Safe Climate Act of 2007. This is an act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the climate introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman of California. As President I will continue to support the goals and targets of this important piece of legislation.

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Kucinich for President: There has to be a renewable energy portfolio of at least 20% by 2010. And that means introducing wind, solar, hydrogen, geothermal, biomass, and all of the options that must be available and need incentivizing. That also means withdrawing incentives for the production of nonrenewable energy.

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Kucinich for President: Dennis attended the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, advocating a plan with Mikhail Gorbachev for a Global Green Deal that would enable the introduction of $50 billion of new solar projects around the world. It will be a major initiative to use our country's leadership in sustainable energy production to provide jobs to Americans, to reduce energy use here at home, and to partner with developing nations to provide their people with inexpensive, local renewable-energy technologies.

This is at the heart of his proposed Works Green Administration (WGA) which would couple a new WPA program to the EPA and NASA in restoring America's infrastructure and providing sustainable energy at the same time.

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Kucinich for President: The Kucinich administration will push Congress to ratifiy the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, re-ratify the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and ratify the biological and chemical weapons convention.

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Kucinich for President: Provide universal education to all Americans from pre-school through college. This would be funded by cutting the Defense budget by 15%. All kids would be expected to attend public schools.

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