Power Sharing in Washington = More Power to the People?

DOES POWER SHARING IN WASHINGTON MEAN 

THAT THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE MORE POWER? 

Join Independentvoting.org President Jackie Salit on the next

National Conference Call for Independents

Date:  MONDAY, December 6th

Time: 8:30 pm ET, 7:30 pm CT, 6:30 pm MT, 5:30 pm PT

For more information contact Nancy Ross or Gwen Mandell

at national@cuip.org or phone: 800-288-3201 or 212-609-2800

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Will GOP Hold Independents in 2012? (John Zogby, Forbes/Data Place)
• Obama Has a Listening Problem (By KARL ROVE, Wall Street Journal) Mr. Obama doesn't seem to understand that the midterm "shellacking" his party took was an explicit rejection of his policies, especially by independent voters.

OPEN PRIMARIES

• Sun peeks through dark Sacramento clouds (GEORGE SKELTON, LA Times) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who strongly advocated both independent redistricting and the open primary, says they'll "fundamentally change the way Sacramento operates."

REFORM

• Alaska May Offer a View to Future Elections (By MATT BAI, NY Times) it’s also possible that Alaska’s defiant electorate, like the California voters who just approved a radical change to their voting system, is actually telling us something important about where American politics is headed, at a time when our system for selecting candidates feels increasingly anachronistic.