TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

HANKSTER LEDE: Gregoire, Rossi in dead heat in poll (Seattle Post Intelligencer) Among independent voters, Rossi gets 41 percent and Gregoire (endorsement of Obama before the primary) 30 percent, with 29 percent undecided. A political lesson....

• November 4, 2008: Independents Day (Forbes)
• Clinton Bets Big on Ohio and Texas (By JACKIE CALMES, Wall Street Journal)
• A declaration on independents (The Economist)
• But could he deliver? (The Economist) Cover story on Barack Obama
• It's an uphill fight for Hillary Clinton now (Scripps Howard News Service)

OPEN PRIMARIES: Letter: Parties should open their primaries (The Advocate, Baton Rouge)

SUPERDELEGATES: You Voted, but They Could Pick the Democratic Nominee (Black Voice News)

POLLS: Clinton Holds Lead Over Obama in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Poll Finds (Bloomberg)