TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Repubs want to overturn Hawaii constitutional requirement of open primary
  
• Party protection plan in South Carolina -- strip the voters
  
• Specter needs open primary in PA
  
• Open primaries could fix California's woes
  
• New York City Independence Party growing
  

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• If you live in New Hampshire, look for the New Hampshire Committee for an Independent Voice on Channel 16Public/Education Programming
• Ralph Nader has something to say to Gail Collins (Dissident Voice.org)
• Obama's 1996 candidate survey food for the Clinton Attack Machine.... (Chicago Sun Times)
• Blacks favor Clinton over Obama-at least for now (By James Wright, Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspapers, Frost Illustrated)
• Hawaii Democrats may sue to close primary (Honolulu Advertiser)
• Virginia: Repub Wittman beats out Dem Forgit and independent Lucky Narain for vacant Congressional seat (Daily Press)
• Missouri: Poll--voters back nonpartisan court plan (St. Louis Business Journal)
• The Anxiety of Hope: Barack Obama is surging in Iowa. Seattle is swooning. Oprah says he’s the one. Could this man be the winner Democrats have been waiting for? (The Stranger - Seattle)