TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Clinton Stakes Claim To 'Electability' (Forbes) The party has a self-sabotaging affinity for "identity politics," which is anathema to U.S. moderate and independent voters.
• Crist: DNC should accept Florida delegates (Tallahassee Democrat) advocates for quick "do-over" mailed balloting — or risk losing independent swing voters in November.
• Counties see spike in party registration before primary (Standard Speaker - Hazelton PA) “It’s akin to taxation without representation,” Stephen Bouikidis, chairman of Independent Pennsylvanians
• Independent vote might benefit Barack Obama (Rapid City Journal - ND)
• Did Republicans give Hillary her victory in Ohio? (The Free Press) Likely shift of independents to Democratic candidate in general election
• Obama wins in Wyoming, adds 7 delegates (Kansas City Star) Plouffe cites independents

North Dakota, Minnesota and Upper Manhattan

Ron Paul will spend the day in North Dakota and Minnesota

New York: With megaphones, telephones and hundreds of pounds of fliers, pamphlets, stickers, posters and buttons, volunteers for Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama turned a warm winter Sunday into a battle for Upper Manhattan two days before the nation’s biggest day of presidential nominating contests..... (New York Times)