TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Jason Olson of Independent Voice in California, an advocacy group that helped launch IndependentPrimary.com, says open primaries result in more voters going to the polls--something the major parties don't care for... (Amador Ledger Dispatch)
• "Too Independent To Vote" -- Arizona independents can vote in the primaries unless it's a presidential election (KOLD News 13- AZ)
• Mike Huckabee makes Wall Street nervous (Bloomberg News)
• It's true that the Lieberman endorsement will help McCain - but with conservatives more than independents. (BY JAMES KIRCHICK, Be Our Guest column - NY Daily News)
• Clarence Page says Andy Young should stay away from microphones... (Daily Journal - Kankakee IL)
• Texas Independence Party tells Secretary of State it will try to qualify (Ballot Access News)
• Maine Green Party WANTS YOU! (Ellsworth American)
• "Just say maybe" -- I think, therefore I punditize... (By John Brummett, Arkansas News)
• Who's Wrong On Race? -- interesting discussion of Dem and Repub history relative to race (By Steve Benen, CBS News)
• "If you want to pull the major party to what you're thinking, YOU MUST, YOU MUST show them that you're capable of not voting for them..." - Lawrence O'Donnell from "Gitlin, Alterman and the Anti-Nader Democrats - Two Unreasonable Men" (By JOHN WALSH, CounterPunch)