As a true Independent, I'd like to thank my fellow independent thinkers for not being lemmings, and for dynamically changing the outcome of this election: Independents, who make up 26 percent of the national electorate, were the swing constituency. They voted for Democrats by a 59 percent to 37 percent margin. "We haven't seen that big a vote for one party among independents since exit polling began about 30 years ago," said Schneider. "[Swing voters] were supposed to be irrelevant, and in previous elections, for about the last 10 years, the swing voters have divided evenly, so who cares," Schneider said. "This year they really had their revenge." from: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/ele....why/index.html Now, if we could only organize an Independent Party... Vince
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(VinceDee @ Nov 8 2006, 12:52 PM) [snapback]345590[/snapback]</div> But then we'd no longer be "Independent". We'd just be part of another party. Unless the goal of the Independent Party wouldn't be to put itself in office, but rather to galvanize the independents to truly vote their consciences. I think many independents tend to follow the "lesser of two evils" theory of voting. Unfortunately, that usually just swaps one bozo for another and maintains the status quo within the big 2. If the independents could be convinced that there are better options (be they Green, Socialist, Libertarian, NJWeedman, whatever), then maybe we'd see some real change in the process. The closest we've come to real 3rd parties was 1912 (Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party) and Ross Perot in 1992. Having a large group of swing voters willing to say "ENOUGH!" and vote against both Dem & Repub might help make the process better.
