TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

INDEPENDENT VOTERS: True Enough (Slate-the book club) There's voluminous poli-sci research on the recent rise of independent voters, and the picture isn't as clear-cut as you say.

BARACK OBAMA: (National Review Online/The Campaign Spot) Will Wright Cost Obama The Independent Vote?

OPEN PRIMARIES:

• No to open primaries (LETTER to Belleville News Democrat)
• Welcome Back, Open Primaries (Kitsap Sun)
• Registration Shifts and Washington State Blanket Primary Decision Spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E for State GOP, Hope for the Future (California Majority Report)
• State's Democratic tilt-Turnout in state primary indicates new reality (By Timm Herdt-Ventura County Star) Some of California's new Dems are actually independents...
• State's 'Top Two' primary upheld by U.S. justices (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
• Democratic Party Says Revote in Michigan Meets Rules (Bloomberg)
• Cities preparing for Hillary Clinton visit (WTHR) Indiana holds open primaries
• Supreme Court restores state's primary tradition (The Daily News - WA)

PENNSYLVANIA: Democratic Registration Brisk in PA (AP)