Don't get your hopes up about a Lieberman-Dole climate change bill.

In Raleigh today for a meeting with the Disabled American Veterans group, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole told Dome she was dismayed that the Climate Security Act failed in the Senate today.

"It's unfortunate, but that's it for now," said Dole, who had voted to move the bill forward.

Since Republican co-sponsor John Warner will be retiring at the end of the session, Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman is reportedly looking for a new member of the GOP to push a revamped bill in next year's session. Dole was asked if she would be interested.

"I think we have to wait and see how things evolve, what happens," she said. "You've got to really have an opportunity to look at the language." 

Dole was a cosponsor of the bill introduced in October, but she was not the lead Republican. 

She said she hopes a future bill will include provisions to promote nuclear power and exploration of potential oil fields "in areas where people want it" — specifically the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

"People don't want it in North Carolina, but in Alaska they're begging for it," she said. 

Dan Besse used YouTube to talk about his record in depth.

The failed Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor had a long history of working behind the scenes on progressive causes, but it was not easy to translate that into a 30-second TV ad.

So Besse used slightly longer YouTube videos to get the word out.

In "Dan Besse: for a safer, cleaner, more livable NC," a partly animated two-minute video, the narrator explains his work as an environmental lawyer to stop four nuclear power plants proposed for Wake County in the 1980s.

Filmed by Winston-Salem activist Frank Eaton, the video cleverly explains how Besse worked on a bill that put the financial responsibility for construction costs back on power companies — a message that would have to be diluted in a typical 30-second ad.

Since it was posted on Feb. 17, the video got 9,976 views. Besse's next-most-watched video, which shows Besse running while his achievements flash on the screen, used techniques more typical of a TV ad and was far less effective, getting only 1,016 views since being posted on Dec. 18.

The nuclear video still didn't get as many hits as Besse needed to turn around the race, but it is a model for how lesser-funded candidates can use YouTube.

A YouTube video for Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Dan Besse got a moderate number of views, but it was not enough to help his campaign.

LEBANON, N.H.—Nearly 30 years ago Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt helped organize the "No Nukes" concert in New York City.

Their opposition to nuclear power hasn't faded. Browne said it was John Edwards' remarks in an energy debate that drew him to endorse Edwards and do a roadshow with Raitt, first in Iowa and this week in New Hampshire, warming up the crowd at Edwards rallies, Mark Johnson reports.

"He was the only candidate who said he didn't want to build any more nuclear power plants," Browne said after a town hall in Lebanon, N.H.