IndependentPrimary.Com

Independent Voters Launch National Online Presidential Primary
December 4, 2007

San Francisco, CA--As a means of measuring the power of independent voters, a coalition of independent political organizations and leaders have launched IndependentPrimary.com to poll independent and independent-minded Americans on their preferences in the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries.

Twenty-eight states have open primaries which allow registered independents and decline-to-state voters to participate in party primaries. The results of the two-week on-line independent primary will be released prior to the nation's first presidential primary in New Hampshire. IndependentPrimary.com is positioned to impact on the New Hampshire election since more than 44% of New Hampshire voters are registered independent and are eligible to participate in the open party contests.

"IndependentPrimary.com is part of a movement bringing together ordinary Americans who believe that the good of the country is more important than the good of the political parties," stated Jim Mangia, founder of IndependentPrimary.com, Chair of Independent Voice in California and the former national secretary for the Reform Party USA. "Independent-minded Americans are frustrated by the lack of dialogue about the issues that are critical to the future of our nation. IndependentPrimary.Com is uniting them into an organized force to challenge the partisanship and special interest control of government which is endangering our democracy."

Currently 42% of Americans self-identify as independent voters.

Given the significance of the independent vote in the New Hampshire contests, several of the presidential campaigns have already contacted their independent supporters urging them to vote for their candidates in the on-line primary. "So far the Ron Paul, Barack Obama and Dennis Kucinich Campaigns have expressed an interest in mobilizing their independent supporters to vote in the on-line independent primary", said Linda Curtis, Head of Independent Texans, another sponsor organization for IndependentPrimary.Com. Curtis added that activists from a participating organization, New Hampshire Committee for an Independent Voice, were working to meet with all the campaigns in that state.

"The candidates and the media pundits clearly recognize that there is an independent voting block that is getting organized," Mangia added. "Last year independent voters demonstrated that we could swing an election when we changed control of Congress to the Democrats in the midterm elections."

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