The Hankster: Where the independents are 8/11/09

Courtesy Donklephant  Mon, 08/10/2009 - 10:01pm

INDEPENDENT VOTERS

  • Chafee On Ballot Would Complicate Rhode Island Race (By Emma Dumain, CQ Politics)
  • Why Indie Voters Don’t Make California Purple (Jerry Roberts, Huffington Post) Others, like Dave Lesher and Mark Baldassare of the Public Policy Institute of California, have made the case more subtly, arguing that because California’s independents combine strains of social liberals and fiscal conservatives, “their vote is up for grabs.” “Independents’ attitudes, in contrast to that of Democrats and Republicans, don’t...



 

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