The Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat continues to reverberate (or is that ricochet?) in the media [for a quick round-up of latest Charlie Cook in National Journal, Robert Reich on Huffington Post, Dan Balz in Washington Post and Kristi Keck on CNN, see today's Hankster] and independent voters remain center stage (the [...]

Open Primaries, Independent Parties, and the Authorities
Must read on Redding News Review — Lenora Fulani explains why she did not support Bill Thompson in November’s mayoral race in NYC…. *******   With more than 40% of the country being independent, opening up the primaries is an important democratic (small “d”) electoral reform that would promote [...]

Where the Independent Voters — and Independent Candidates — Are in 2010
You’ll never see what happened last Tuesday looking through a two-party microscope! Nope. You need an independent historyscope to get this one!
I had the pleasure of hearing independent strategist Jackie Salit give her analysis of the November elections on Sunday night on her regular [...]

News Headlines for Independent Voters 10/6/09
Independent Voters
On healthcare and other hot issues: Follow the independents–The number of voters not tied to Democrats or Republicans is expanding fast. Both parties need to adjust. (By the Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board) Were the 2010 elections to occur today, 43 percent of independents say they would vote Republican [...]

INDEPENDENT VOTERS
Coverage of independent voters and health care reform from a more progressive viewpoint:

Wisconsin: Health Care Vital Issue (By Cecily Wu, CQ Politics) Thus, enactment of health care legislation that can draw solid public support could enable Kagen to maintain the backing of independent voters, who Scattergood said comprise upwards of 20 percent of the [...]

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

Wherever independents fall on the supposed political “spectrum”, if they ARE on the political “spectrum”, (i.e. they do exist!) Many MSM publishers seek increasing irrelevance if they don’t see the direction that the American people are headed…. While it’s clear that independents are “all over the map” on social issues, they increasingly come together [...]

Never one to miss an opportunity, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may run on the Republican ticket next mayoral election while still remaining a declared independent. Apparently, despite being an apostate to the national party, local borough GOP leaders are willing to let the still-popular mayor put his name on their line.
If you’re keeping score [...]

All hail the new Tammany Hall!
From NY Times:
After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the New York City Council voted, 29 to 22, on Thursday afternoon to extend term limits, allowing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undoing the result of two voter referendums that had imposed a [...]

And given the current circumstances on Wall Street, my bet is he’ll get.
MarketWatch has the details…
Bloomberg announced Thursday he supports changing the term limits law to run for a third term. Observers have respected Bloomberg for restoring a sense of optimism to a post-9/11 New York City while encouraging tourists to visit, keeping crime low [...]

(UPDATE: Both campaigns rejected the offer because they don’t want to limit it to just one network. Hmmm…)
Now this is a pretty brilliant move…
The guy who has some of the deepest pockets in the world, and could be a VP for either candidate, wants to use that leverage.
From Politico:
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and [...]

Watch this time lapsed video. It’s hypnotic.

More from the New Yorker:
White has the security-camera videotape of his time in the McGraw-Hill elevator. He has watched it twice-it was recorded at forty times regular speed, which makes him look like a bug in a box. The most striking thing to him about the tape is that [...]

It looks like a small device was set off next to a military recruiting station.
Here’s more…
The police said the explosive device involved in the Times Square blast this morning was “roughly similar” to the devices used in two earlier bombings at foreign consulates in Manhattan, in 2005 and 2007, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said [...]