- The voters no one can take for granted--independent voters are on the rise (Los Angeles Times)
- New Hampshire's independent voters at 44% big factor in primary (Detroit Free Press)
- Independents may get to vote in primary (The Arizona Republic)
- 36 percent of Latino voters are independent (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Kinky Friedman dons Democrat tag (Star-Telegram)
- Senate Bill 924 asks voters to decide whether to get out of Iraq (Sacramento Bee)
- Obama, Kucnich endorse IRV (Instant Runoff Voting website - a project of FairVote.org)
2 comments:
See http://icga.blogspot.com/2007/09/rollout-to-war-with-iran-update.html on the preparations for war with Iran.
Why should independents be concerned about this? The obvious answer, of course, is how could anyone the least concerned with humanity NOT be concerned.
But to address the interests of independents based on their more narrow interests, this is putting the Democratic presidential candidates in a serious bind. They and their base are more or less united on getting the U.S. out of Iraq, though not as united as I would like. But the Zionist lobby has a solid lock on the Democratic Party, and they are campaigning hard and openly for attacking Iran, and the leading Democratic candidates are silent on Iran. At best!
If independents care about anything, they should be raising their voices loud and clear right now! I hate sounding hysterical, and I've argued for years that war with Iran was too crazy even for Bush. But the bombing COULD begin within weeks.
Or they "will not be able to answer. And a vulture of silence
will eat [their] gut."
Vis a vis the possibility of independents voting in Arizona's presidential primaries: the state cannot force that, as it's up to each party. In 1986, the U. S. Supreme Court gave parties the right to invite independents to vote in their primaries, but, again, the state cannot mandate it.
California's Democrats, e.g., are inviting independents to vote in their 2008 presidential primary. California Republicans, in contrast, are limiting their presidential primary to GOP voters.
Post a Comment