Ohio Primary: I'm an independent. Can I vote?

The Hankster has gotten so many hits over the past 48 hours from independents in Ohio, I thought it might be worth another mention that YES, independents CAN VOTE tomorrow in the primary.

In case you're just tuning in, The Hankster is an independent political blog, started in 2006. I hope you like it!

A little-known fact: I used to live in Ohio -- Cleveland, to be exact -- where I helped raise matching funds for Lenora Fulani's independent presidential campaign in 1992...

Cleveland's cool! (Just so you know, if I wasn't living happily in New York City, I'd be in Cleveland...) Cleveland is also the home of Dennis Kucinich, one of the most independent Democratic presidential candidates. The Cleveland Plain Dealer is the major paper, they endorsed Obama, and then Hearst didn't like it.... that's some food for thought...

Kinda stokes the Midwestern embers of my heart.... Ahhh, The Heartland... Let's do it!
Love you, Ohio!
The Hankster

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Clinton, Giuliani Behave Like It's Already Fall '08--can you take a year of this? (RealClearPolitics)
• New Hampshire/Michigan: It's not a 2007 primary yet (Concord Monitor)
• New Hampshire candidate forum on global warming sparsely attended (Concord Monitor)
• Michelle Obama in Iowa (The Trail, Washington Post)
• Alabama: Redistricting fight is likely coming up (Thomasville Times)
• Ohio: Attorney files suit in ballot exclusion-Longtime Republican says she is independent (Akron Beacon Journal)
• New Jersey: Libertarian candidates qualify for public funding-Campaign manager for D-14 Assembly hopefuls says they're 'in it to win' (East Brunswick Sentinel)
• Minnesota: World has changed -- so why not change how we pick a president? (Rochester Post Bulletin)

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• The courtship of black voters in South Carolina (Los Angeles Times)
• Secretary of state will decide if Cuyahoga Falls independents are really Republicans (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• Board deadlocks-Ohio's secretary of state will decide who's independent (Warsmith Beacon Journal)
• Blueprint Louisiana: Reform Agenda Needed-independent John Georges the only candidate to sign on (Bayou Buzz)

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• Dems losing independent support (MSNBC)
• Ohio: Are they independent candidates or really GOP plants? (Warsmith Beacon Journal)
• Mass: Independent candidates can't debate - League of Women Voters (Eagle-Tribune)
• New Jersey: Libertarian Likely to be First Minor Party or Independent to Qualify for New Jersey Legislative Public Funding (Ballot Access News)

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

• New Oregon Independent Party is state's fastest-growing (Statesman Journal)
• 1994 Redux: The Consequences of Dems' New NAFTA (David Sirota-Huffington Post)
• Clinton's Familiar Third Rail-AARP debate report (Washington Post)
• Schwarzenegger says independent voters are key (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE)
• Schwarzenegger tells GOP faithful to court independents (KGET - San Diego)
• Polls look bad for Kinky Dem run (Waco Tribune)
• Minnesota stands out in the Midwest for the strong showings third party candidates (Hometown Source)
• Ohio Court Ducks Issue of Who Can Circulate Petitions (Ballot Access News)

TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS

BLOOMBERG'S NONPARTISANSHIP

• Bloomberg continues to support Repubs in New York despite nonpartisan stand (Jonathan Singer on MyDD blog)
• Bloomberg in a great position to affect public discourse (Bloomberg.com)
• Bloomberg's Insistent Call for Partisan Disarmament (Gay City News)

OBAMA CAMPAIGN

• Obama's Tightrope: the closer to ordinary black folks, the further from the nomination... (Washington Post commentary)

LOCAL INDEPENDENT ISSUES

• OH: Ruling on independent candidates has partisans dropping petitions as independents (Salem News)
• AL: Court backs Alabama's ballot laws, Independent candidates say requirements too tough (Decatur Daily)
• AL: Ballot access laws for independents now the toughest in the country (Montgomery Advertiser)

POLL ON INDIES

• Independent Voters 'Not a Homogeneous Group', Poll shows greater diversity within political affiliation (Harvard Crimson)