TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• GALLUP POLL: Hispanic Voters Prefer Clinton to Giuliani in Hypothetical Match-Up-33% of black voters are independent (Gallup)
• Independent voters powerful in 2008-note on WaPo study (UPI)
• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is hardly the world's only independent. (Tom Blackburn, Palm Beach Post)
• Bill Plante: Election '08 still up for grabs (Daily News of Newburyport)
• Obama can't take blacks for granted, Missed chance to tell what he'd do for African Americans (Chicago Sun Times)
• Minority focus group says Clinton stands out, Pollster finds senator rated highly in debate, boosted by position on AIDS (Democrat & Chronicle)
• MT: Three big incumbents fare well in Montana poll-Clinton won in 92 bec. 26% of Repubs voted for Perot (Great Falls Tribune)
• PA: Pennsylvania Minor Parties Ask US Supreme Court to Take Ballot Access Case (Ballot Access News)
• In Spitzer/Bloomberg match-up, Spitzer only wins upstate (Brooklyn Eagle)
• Bloomberg candidacy wouldhurt Hillary (Staten Island Advance)