Serious as a Heart Attack: The Independents’ Story

Courtesy Donklephant  Mon, 10/12/2009 - 3:56pm

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 presidential election.

And it is this shift by independents – who repositioned themselves from center-right to center-left – that gave the Republican...


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