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’ [...]

Independent voters
* Clarus Poll: 88 Percent of American Workers Are Happy With Their Jobs (Reuters press release) Party: Republicans, at 92 percent, were happier than Democrats, at 80 percent. Self-described independent voters were almost as happy as Republicans at 91 percent.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS207031+02-Sep-2009+PRN20090902
* Congress’s Rating in U.S. Drops to 24-Year Low, Pew Poll Finds (By Jonathan D. [...]

Independent voters
Unrest among voters has implications for midterm elections; Watch those polls – but watch those polls carefully!

Obama Caught Up in the Washington Blame Game-The rancorous atmosphere in Washington has spread to healthcare town hall meetings (By Kenneth T. Walsh, US News & World Report) There is a real danger here for the Washington establishment. [...]

Poli-Tea author Damon Eris, independent political blogger, talks with The Hankster about independent and third party politics, the rise of independent voters in the face of an entrenched political duopoly, and what it all means to American politics circa 2009 and beyond.
Click here to sign in to the show.
You’ll be able to access the call [...]

All of the above are tweets from Andrew Breitbart’s Twitter feed.
Here’s the deal: you don’t speak ill of the dead, especially when the body is still warm.
Now, before any of the conservatives in the audience get all pissy with me, you should know that I did not always agree with Ted Kennedy [...]

Independent Voters
Independents are playing a key role in the debate on health care. Centrist commentator John Avlon says indies are social liberals/fiscal conservatives; James A. Morone, seeming to speak for the Demo-(We-Are-Not-Socialists)-Crats says indies are moderate, fence-sitting, frightened and don’t vote in midterm elections… Independent strategist and public philosopher Fred Newman, PhD says “the most [...]

Hello everyone! After a vacation in the Heartland, here are some highlights of news for independent voters from the past week or so:
Independent Voters

Who’s Got the Power? Progressives find themselves outmaneuvered on healthcare reform. (By David Moberg, In These Times) More importantly, longer-term possibilities have been created by the failure of the Bush administration, the [...]

Some interesting polling numbers from PPP via Pollster.com:
Favorable / Unfavorable
Newt Gingrich: 33 / 42
Mike Huckabee: 45 / 28
Sarah Palin: 40 / 49
Mitt Romney: 37 / 34
2012 President
Obama 49%, Gingrich 41%
Obama 47%, Huckabee 44%
Obama 52%, Palin 38%
Obama 47%, Romney 40%
What is most notable to me are the 2012 presidential match-ups. Mike Huckabee is the [...]

News Headlines for Independent Voters DATE
Independent voters
Debate over where independents stand on health care reform stands…
GOP seeks its revival in the revolt against Obama’s healthcare plan (By Janet Hook and Peter Wallsten, LA Times) Others are still trying to figure out how to balance the desires of the base with the need to appeal to [...]

Independent Voters
Independent voters are at the center of the storm about health care reform.
Katrina Swett: Democratic Party has plenty of room for moderate voices (NH Union Leader, By KATRINA SWETT) As a lifelong Democrat who is proud to be considered part of the vibrant and effective heart of the party, I strongly disagree. It is [...]

Independent Voters

NOTE: Without much fanfare, the WaPo introduced a new blog just about around a year ago. Funny, this is the first mention of “independent voters”…in an article about Sarah Palin’s “downright evil” comment about President Obama’s healthcare plan. Sarah Palin Calls for…Restraint? (Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post/Post Partisan)
IMHO Marc Ambinder is one of the more anti-independent [...]