TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

Committee for a Unified Independent Party January 25 conference brought scant attention from the MSM or the blogosphere, but Azi Paybarah twittered the conference (as did The Hankster) and covered Doug Schoen's talk on PolitickerNY, and Anglico went out on a limb to post a note on Daily Kos drawing fire for using the word "independent"!

Deliberations go on about where to put Obama's vast online network, and here's a bit on how they found those coveted swing voters...

Everyone's trying to peek behind the curtain on the Gillibrand Senate appointment in New York. The Repubs are eyeing the vacancy, the Dems are thinking independent, and in the meantime, Mike Bloomberg is doing well in the polls and US District Court says term limits sacking by City Council is ok by them...

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

California considers a constitutional convention -- can open primaries save this state? Dan Walters thinks a convention might be the only way out of this mess...

NY Gov. Patterson has his hands full with the appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand to fill Hillary's US Senate seat. Ahhh, the mysterious ways of New York state politics! The media seem to agree that Gillibrand has appeal to critical independent voters.... and here's a pack of politicians and pundits trying to figure out cross-endorsement in New York state...

Most people think that the teachers union is more interested in maintaining teachers' jobs than in the quality of education. (Rasmussen Reports) You gotta wonder why there's a difference....