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Monday, December 17, 2007

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

Ron Paul's 2007 Boston Tea Party--instead of dumping tea, he raised another $5 mil (Boston Globe) and while you're at it, check out the godwhacker graphic....



Obama, Paul, Gravel active in Alaska (Anchorage Daily News)



Liz Halloran says the war in Iraq momentarily not The Issue for candidates... but don't count on that after the primaries or if the casualty count goes up... (By Liz Halloran, US News & World Report) I agree voters are increasingly wary and weary of the rhetoric, having been taken through the wash by the Dems after the 2006 midterms. Personally I think the electorate is not responding so much to individual issues--whether foreign or domestic policy--but rather is making a statement about how policy gets made. American voters seem to be saying "Insider partisans beware!"



Lieberman has apparently come full circle in his political meanderings... (The Trail - WaPo) and love this headline in Alaska Report



Dan Abrams welcomes change in Justice Dept Civil Rights Division saying "from 2001 to 2006, not one voting discrimination case was brought on behalf of African-American voters." (Huffington Post) and that includes a complaint filed in 2005 by Lenora Fulani and others from 11 states on the voting rights of independent black voters. See Rob Redding's report from 2006 here....

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