Today is primary day and 3.5 million Flori

Saturday, January 12, 2008

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

Hillary Has Company - Some Women Who Have Run For President Before (Transported) Lenora Fulani is perhaps the most successful female Presidential candidate so far.

County voter numbers rise (Pauls Valley Daily Democrat - OK) “Because registered Independents have been able to vote for either party in Iowa and New Hampshire, some Independents here have been asking why they can’t vote on Feb. 5”

Hits and misses (Trenton Times Editorial) MISS: The continued shut-out of the state's 2.7 million independent voters from the primary process in New Jersey.

Two-party system does more to damage democracy than to promote it (Letter to Canton Repository)

Obama Rocks Iowa, Clinton, Mccain Battle Back In New Hampshire (By Chris Levister, Black Voice News Online) While Clinton won handily among registered Democrats, Obama outstripped her by an even larger margin among Independents, but he suffered from a drop in turnout among young voters compared with Iowa.

D.L.C. Leaders Cut Edwards Out (By Ariel Alexovich, The Caucus New York Times) Senator Obama’s appeal that he’s made very firmly and directly to independent voters, and Senator Clinton’s appeal to the forgotten middle class are going to add up to a very smashing Democratic majority in the fall.” - Al From

Idaho: Republican Party Chairman Wants ID Primaries Closed (By Vanessa Brown, 2 News TV - Boise ID) * ID: Closed Primary Bill Introduced (Boise Weekly)

Pennsylvania: Voting rights: New Hampshire results show the importance of having open primaries (Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times online)

Minnesota: Reformers want politics out of political mapping-Current system serves interests of politicians, not voters, reformers say. (By MARK BRUNSWICK, Star Tribune)

The Bloomberg Primary: Unity08 Loses, Independence (Party) Wins (by Azi Paybarah, NY Observer The Politicker) "I don’t care if God comes out of the sky, we’re going with Bloomberg.” - Frank MacKay (Bloomberg backer)

National Network Prepared for Bloomberg-Though Mayor Bloomberg insists he's not running for president, "Draft Mike" activists across the US are collecting thousands of signatures to get Bloomberg on the ballot. (by Bob Hennelly, WNYC)

Wanna know what The Hankster thinks about some of the efforts behind Mike Bloomberg's potential presidential campaign? See "Bloomberg Inching/Voters Itching" in OpEdNews.... "The independent movement needs rich people and big names who will do what ordinary people want them to do, and not cave into grandstanders and hack third party opportunists." And while you're at it, check out Jackie Salit's The Bloomberg Story....

Independence Party of Minnesota delegates will meet Jan. 26 in Bloomington to vote on the proposed national affiliation to back Bloomberg for president.

Calls Grow for Bloomberg to Make Up His Mind (By DIANE CARDWELL and RAY RIVERA, NY Times) “Mike Bloomberg has failed to make a case that he represents an independent movement." - Robert Zimmerman (Clinton campaign advisor)

Kucinich is excluded from NBC debates - Take Action (by Heather Wokusch, OpEdNews)

Regardless of the context and "what they really meant", the Clintons (Bill and Hillary) have an attitude and Jim Clyburn for one doesn't like it (By Carl Hulse, NY Times)

2 comments:

'becca said...

that quote from frank mackay is so telling! god is more important than ordinary people, and even god can't impact on his plans. gross.

Nancy Hanks said...

He's a bit old-fashioned....