This article has multiple issues.
No kidding.
Let’s start at the beginning:
Is corporatocracy a far-left conspiracy theory or is it that government of the people, for the people and by the people perishing from the earth?
It’s hard to say – literally, corporatocracy is a hard word to write and say.
It occurs [...]

142,817 VOTES FOR BLOOMBERG ON COLUMN C
DELIVERS MARGIN TO
CITY’S FIRST INDEPENDENT MAYOR
New York, NY-The Independence Party vote for Mike Bloomberg yesterday broke numerous records and re-enforced its ongoing mandate for independent governance and non-partisan reform.
Unofficial returns released by the Board of Elections put the IP total on Column “C” at 142,817 votes, nearly 26% of [...]

News Headlines for Independent Voters 10/31/09
Note  in the majority of voters in New Jersey are independent and will play the decisive role in Tuesday Gov election there.
Mike Bloomberg, in coalition with the NYC Independence Party, carries out an independent nonpartisan race for the future of New York City.
Elsewhere in New York, independent candidates, parties and [...]

So, a pretentious group of musicians is upset that their music is being used to torment America’s most dangerous enemies?
And now they want the U.S. government to release an official song list?
I can’t imagine that such a document actually exists. Are we supposed to believe that CIA and Pentagon interrogators around the world were issued [...]

Atlanta, GA — Georgia Independent Voters (GIV), a state-based association representing independent voters, announced today its endorsement of former State Senator Kasim Reed for mayor of the City of Atlanta.
“We’re proud to announce our support for Kasim Reed for Mayor of Atlanta,” said Thyrsa M. Gravely, a long-time independent political organizer and a key player [...]

News Headlines for Independent Voters 10/22/09
Independent Voters
How Dems Can Cut Their Losses (by Charlie Cook, National Journal) Part of the genius of the 1994 GOP “Contract with America” was its message that resonated with the independent voters and others who voted for Ross Perot in 1992. It was less ideological and more outsider.
Morning Fix: A [...]

A brief introduction:  I’m a libertarian Republican, fiscal conservative and born-again Christian with moderate social views.  That means I’m sure to irritate everyone at some point, but never mind; I’m pleased to be invited to be part of the Donklephant team. Now, on to the first post …
Along with the head scratching [...]

SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK: THE INDEPENDENTS’ STORY
By: Jackie Salit
When we finally get far enough down the road on health care reform, it will become clear that a driving force in the intensity of the fight was a heart attack. Not the medical kind. The political kind.
Independents swung decisively to Barack Obama in the 2008 [...]

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 [...]

Something has been bugging me all weekend.
I’ve never been to Chicago. From what friends and family have told me, The Windy City is indeed a great place. There is lots to see and do.
But you wouldn’t be told that if you asked any number of right-wing-talking-heads. To these folks, Chicago is a [...]

News Headlines for Independent Voters 10/4/09
Open Primaries
California’s independent-minded gov Arnold Schwarzenegger still fighting for open primaries–Repubs officially reject his reform leadership
A Report from California’s GOP Convention (Jon Fleischman, National Review Online) The delegates to the convention overwhelmingly opposed an open-primary measure that will appear on next June’s ballot. This measure is expected to be championed [...]

News Headlines for Independent Voters 9/29/09
Watching the gov races go independent
A Declaration of independents in 2010 (By ALEX ISENSTADT, Politico) Independent candidates are poised to run serious campaigns for governor in at least a half-dozen states, a development that threatens Democratic fortunes in some of the bluest and most progressive-minded states in the nation.
Read more: [...]

Independent voters are at the center (though not necessarily centr-IST!) of the current firestorm going on in the country over healthcare, socialism, war, and nearly every other issue around. I was reading Jonathan Weisman’s article in the WSJ yesterday (see below) and was struck by some of the questions that the NBC/WSJ poll asked voters. [...]

Independent Voters
Health care debate tide turns — again…

Obama must prod Demos toward agreement on health-care legislation (By Dan Balz, The Washington Post) The most immediate task at hand for President Barack Obama in his drive to win enactment of health-care legislation is to bring together members of his party behind a single piece of legislation. [...]

If you’re not familiar with Talk Talk, a weekly news analysis by independent strategists Fred Newman and Jackie Salit, I highly recommend you check it out. Here’s last week’s from Sunday, September 6, 2009
Every week CUIP’s president Jacqueline Salit and strategist/philosopher Fred Newman watch the political talk shows and discuss them. Here are excerpts from [...]

Independent Voters
Independent voters may be “all over the map” ideologically, but most think the US should get out of Afghanistan…

Pelosi Sees Support Ebbing for Afghan War (By YOCHI J. DREAZEN and NAFTALI BENDAVID, Wall Street Journal) Support among Democratic and independent voters for the Afghan war has been evaporating for months, and a raft of [...]

CNN’s American Morning Speaks to Independents on 9/11
Jackie Salit, IndependentVoting.org President, to Appear
Polarization has frequently been part of America’s political culture, but the divisions over healthcare and the President’s education speech have flooded the airwaves. As we mark another anniversary of 9/11, the sense of fellowship that emerged from that tragedy seems to have faded [...]

News Headlines for Independent Voters 9/9/09
Independent voters
Read this article for a good straight-forward anti-socialist perspective on the health care debate. The conversation centers around whether we want a country with a spirit of collective work and collective good, or an “every man for himself” culture. What do you think?
The Limits of Self-Hate (By Lisa Fabrizio, [...]

Independent Voters
According to the polls, independents are abandoning unions, Obama and the progressive agenda. Or did the unions, Pres. Obama and progressives abandon independents to the right?

Labor Unions See Sharp Slide in U.S. Public Support-For first time, fewer than half of Americans approve of labor unions (by Lydia Saad, Gallup)
Obama is fast losing white voters’ [...]