What Do Independents Want? Congress Should Investigate Biases Against Full Participation in Political Process by Nonpartisan Voters

• According to IndependentVoting.org, over 2,000 letters, postcards and petitions have been sent to members of Congress over the summer to 1) educate Congress and shine a light on the effect of partisan control of the election process, namely that 40% of Americans have a second class status; and 2) to urge Congress to investigate these biases by holding hearings.
• Anna Sale Talks with Independent Voters  (The Brian Lehrer Show) VIDEO
• Anna and the Independent Voter: Targeting Minorities (WNYC) AUDIO
• Poll: Double digit support for hypothetical Independent Presidential candidates (by Damon Eris, CAIVN) "Despite their grumbling, Democrats remain pretty united behind Obama, and six of the seven possible independent candidates would hurt Romney more than the president," writes Dustin Ingalls in an analysis of the results at the PPP blog.
• AP-GfK Poll: Obama faces trouble with key voters (By KEN THOMAS and JENNIFER AGIESTA, Forbes) Obama will have to win over people such as Brian Arnold, 33, of Pickerington, Ohio. He's an independent who voted for Obama in 2008 because he liked the Democrat's outsider image. Now, Arnold says he's undecided and down on Obama. "He got elected, it was a big party and after that he went back to being a politician. As soon as he got in office, he just did more of the same."

Anna Sale: Finding Nonpartisans in a Partisan World

Anna Sale has a big job -- finding out what nonpartisans, in a partisan world, think. And she's not doing too bad!

INDEPENDENT VOTERS
The Changing Face of America's Independent Voters (AUDIO The Takeaway) Anna Sale on the radio talks about independents and race

Anna Sale: Independent Voters in New Hampshire

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• The Search for the Independent Voter: New Hampshire (Anna Sale on YouTube WNYC-It's a Free Country)
• Letter: Voters deserve more (By: Jason O'Neal Griggs, Dothan Eagle) There needs to be a true independent party (the billionaire-bankrolled Tea Party does not qualify): a party independent from special interests, corporations and failed partisan ideologies and machinations. Democrats and Republicans have been the only two viable choices for far too long.
• Gallup: Satisfaction with national conditions lowest among Independent voters (by Christopher A. Guzman, CAIVN)