- In South Jersey, more minorities, and independent voters are still the largest voting bloc by far. In Burlington and Monmouth Counties, the number of voters registered as unaffiliated outnumbers Democratic and Republican registrants combined. (Campaigns & Elections magazine)
- In Michigan, changing the timing of the primary, Independent voters probably would have to declare a party preference to participate (Michigan Live)
- 3rd-party candidates are wild cards in zany year (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
- Karl Rove Has Left The Building: Or HAS He? (By Joe Gandelman - The Moderate Voice)
- Will Nunn Run? (Human Events)
- The Bloomberg Scenario (By Charlie Cook, National Journal)
- In Oregon, still at it, for an open primary (The Oregonian)
- In North Carolina ‘Instant runoff’ gets a tryout in Hendersonville (Ashville Citizen Times)
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
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Glenn Greenwald has a remarkable piece on the bipartisanship of the foreign policy establishment that concludes:
"Large numbers of Americans believe that we should stop acting as the world ruler -- the new Pew Poll found "widespread feelings that the US is playing the role of the hegemonic or dominant world leader more than it should be" -- but such views are rigidly excluded from the bi-partisan Foreign Policy Community and thus excluded from what we are permitted in the mainstream to debate."
Names are named and the elite dissected. Read the whole thing at http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
The purpose of party primaries, of course, is to choose each party's candidates for the general election.
If political parties are so awful, why would an independent want to help choose their candidates?
Steve - independents don't think the parties should have the only say in what candidates are running. If we had a level playing field for voters to choose our representatives instead of candidates being chosen by clubhouses that make deals with each other, then you might have a valid question.... A lot of people think the parties are undemocratic -- not only independents, and there are many more fair ways for our elected officials to get elected than through partisan primaries.
Nancy
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