TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Like independents nationally, independents in Virginia are held together bya rejection of partisan labels, not an overriding shared ideology. (Washington Post)
• 'Billary' treads with much caution, independents lean Dem (Detroit Free Press weekly roundup)
• Mississippi court says indies must register with a party to vote in primary-Dems in trouble--the result of those decisions will be to send many white independent, unaffiliated voters scurrying to register in the GOP. (Clarion Ledger)
• With polls showing both the Republican president and Democratic Congress mired in the 30 percent approval range, it's not surprising that a renewed effort has been created to break the two-party stranglehold on U.S. politics... Senate Bill 506 could be called the anti-Lieberman bill (Las Cruces Sun News Report)
• In Virginia, an unfavorable trend (Power Line )
• Could It Get Any Worse for Bush? Sure, Just Watch-Half of Virginia independents named Busher the worst president since 1960. (Blog Critics )
• BTW, Independents are not all "middle of the road"- In fact, many independents appear to be to the left of the Democratic Party, particularly when it comes to how to handle the behavior of the criminal Bush administration. Or maybe left isn’t the right word. They are more concerned about preserving democracy than the Democratic Party is. (OpEd News)
• Border Security-About two-thirds of Democrats and independents said they were not confident about the government's performance, as did about half of Republicans. (Washington Post)
• Bloomberg candidacy would help Clinton (Washington Times)
• Across the divide: How Barack Obama is shaking up old assumptions about what it means to be black and white in America. (Newsweek)