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Dr. Lenora Fulani Gives John McCain the Straight Talk
The Independent View | September 29th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Dr. Lenora Fulani sent John McCain a letter this week giving him the straight talk about what his endorsement by the Independence Party of the New York means. Dr. Fulani is a founder of the party.Use the above link to read the letter(pdf).Michael H. read more
Jackie Salit's Post Convention Analysis
The Independent View | September 25th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Jackie Salit added an independent's point of view to the political analysis. Here she appears on the Morning News edition of CBC, September 23, 2008.Use the above link to read Jackie's NEO-INDEPENDENT Magazine.Michael H. Drucker Technorati Tag in Del read more
Omar Ali and Sal Peralta: Independents to watch out for
The Hankster | September 16th 2008 by Nancy Hanks
Hankster readers, FYI:Omar Ali is a close friend of mine. He is a professor of history at Vanderbilt University, and a prominent historian of the independent and third-party movements, specifically about the impact of African Americans on and in thir read more
National Conference for Independents
The Independent View | September 11th 2008 by Michael Drucker
SAVE THE DATE!The Committee for a Unified Independent Party will host its biennial National Conference for Independents in New York City Sunday, January 25, 2009 (Opening Reception on the evening of Saturday, January 24th Workshops and Trainings, M read more
Independents Win Legal Victory
The Independent View | August 20th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Independents just won a significant legal victory in Idaho.Last month, CUIP, our Idaho affiliate, and 12 independent voters petitioned the Federal Court to become co-defendants in a lawsuit filed by the Republican Party against the State of Idaho. T read more
The Change in Voter Rolls
The Independent View | August 5th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Well before Senators Barack Obama and John McCain rose to the top of their parties, a partisan shift was under way at the local and state level. For more than three years starting in 2005, there has been a reduction in the number of voters who regist read more
What's Next for Independents?
The Independent View | July 28th 2008 by Michael Drucker
CUIP president Jackie Salit has this video message for independent leaders and activists in the national IndependentVoting.org networks about what's next for indies in the post-primary season.Independents are interested in reforms that would level th read more
Ryan Christiano -- independent thinker
The Hankster | July 24th 2008 by Nancy Hanks
Please visit Ryan Christiano -- "A Political Scientist with a concentration in Political Philosophy and International Relations. I am a fierce Independent who believes Political Parties create group thinking rather than good thinking. I love to write read more
If you're an independent, you need to know who Fred Newman is!
The Hankster | July 23rd 2008 by Nancy Hanks
... And now there's a website so you can...!"Fred Newman is the public philosopher who for 30 years has translated the mostprogressive ideals of the 1960s into effective instruments of social and personal transformation. The centerpiece of Newman’s read more
Watchblog writers shift to PoliWatch
The Hankster | July 22nd 2008 by Nancy Hanks
Poliwatch Indies: A message from David RemerDear former WatchBlog visitor,Some of the writers from WatchBlog have set up a similar web site called PoliWatch. Unlike WatchBlog which is currently down, and has not seen a software upgrade or single addi read more
IPNY Still to Pick Presidential Candidate
The Independent View | July 13th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Thanks to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News for this one:"The New York Independence Party has a tradition of choosing its presidential nominee at the last possible moment. In 2000, it chose John Hagelin on September 24. In 2004, it chose Ralph Nad read more
Bloomberg Still Around
The Independent View | July 3rd 2008 by Michael Drucker
Although his own political future is unclear, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coming to Minnesota to help the fortunes of the state's Independence Party. Party Chairman Craig Swaggert says Bloomberg is the featured guest for a fundraising breakfa read more
MAY 2008 - NATIONAL INDEPENDENT CONFERENCE CALL
The Independent View | June 12th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Independents activists from around the country talk about their efforts and where the independent movement is at with respect to the 2008 elections and beyond. Use the above link to listen to the conference call!Michael H. Drucker Technorati Tag in D read more
Fight for Local Control
The Independent View | April 25th 2008 by Michael Drucker
On April 24, 2008, I went to the Court of Appeals in Albany, New York, the highest Court in New York, to hear our lawyers auguments for Local Control.The Court heard the case for Local Control for the Independence Party and Working Families Party of read more
New 2008 Presidential Opinion Poll
The Independent View | April 4th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Take the new 2008 presidential survey!! The results of this new survey will be used in a new widely distributed report issued by CUIP this summer about independents and the presidential primaries, so your participation is vital.Use the above link to read more
Independents Fighting On - Call for Candidates
The Independent View | March 17th 2008 by Michael Drucker
In general third party watchers still see a great opportunity for a surging independent movement in 2008. As Lou Dobbs wrote, it will take “nothing less than an independent voter rebellion” to wrest control of the two establishment parties from t read more
MARCH 2008 - NATIONAL INDEPENDENT CONFERENCE CALL
The Independent View | March 12th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Independents have defined the presidential race. Listen to Jackie Salit, editor of the Neo-Independent Magainze and President of CUIP talk about how independents have impacted and where we're going. Also includes reports from around the country, incl read more
Hillary Rewrites History
The Independent View | February 27th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Last night in the Democratic debate in Ohio, Hillary tried to rewrite history. She dissed the NY Independence Party in a responce to Obama's answer about Louis Farrakhan's endorsement. To understand what the true story is please use the above link.As read more
Grassroots 2008
The Independent View | February 25th 2008 by Michael Drucker
I was watching a C-SPAN conference about the 2008 Presidential campaigning. The panel indicated this is a grassroots year and maybe the last year of top-down politics. They spoke about how Obama using web 2.0 tools has given the grassroot a way to us read more
Incomplete Grade
The Independent View | February 12th 2008 by Michael Drucker
The following is an opinion peice from one of this nations true centrists, Jack Uldrich, former chair of the Independence Party of Minnesota. Here is his commentary:Last weekend my neighbor offered me four tickets to attend the Barack Obama rally in read more
Super Delegates
The Independent View | February 9th 2008 by Michael Drucker
The Democratic Party has two types of delegates: Pledged and Superdelegates.Out of a total 4,049 delegates, 3,253 are pledged. A pledged delegate is elected or chosen on the state and local level by a primary or caucus.Superdelegates comprise 796 out read more
Bloomberg's Independence Primer
The Independent View | January 28th 2008 by Michael Drucker
This week TIME spoke with ballot access expert Clayton Mulford, who ran both of Ross Perot's Independent candidacies as campaign manager and principle spokesperson in 1992 and as general counsel in 1996. Mulford, a 51-year-old corporate security lawy read more
Open Primaries
The Independent View | January 25th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Here is a sample letter to your paper if your state has closed primaries:Dear Editor, Everyone's talking about the impact independent voters are having in this presidential election. But in 18 states, independents can't vote in the primaries or caucu read more
Independent Voters
The Independent View | January 21st 2008 by Michael Drucker
The following is from an article by Stanley Fish the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Universit read more
Independents Will Make the Difference
The Independent View | January 18th 2008 by Michael Drucker
On the political calendar, February 5th is a date that looms large. Twenty-two states hold presidential primaries or caucuses. No wonder it’s been dubbed not only Super Tuesday, but in some quarters Tsunami Tuesday. What is the Super Big Wave th read more
2008 NH primary analysis
The Independent View | January 10th 2008 by Michael Drucker
Read Jackie Salit's, president of CUIP (Committe for a Unfied Independent Party) and Executive Editor of THE NEO-INDEPENDENT magazine "Some thoughts on the New Hampshire results" by clicking the above link.Michael H. Drucker Technorati Tag in Del.ici read more
Facing America's Independents
The Independent View | December 31st 2007 by Michael Drucker
A Documentary on America's Emerging Political Force View me with a number of my independent friends. Want to get involved with the movement that's changing American politics? Use the above link.Michael H. Drucker Technorati Tag in Del.icio.us read more
Bloomberg leads unity challenge
The Independent View | December 30th 2007 by Michael Drucker
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their pla read more
Independent voters care a lot
The Independent View | December 28th 2007 by Michael Drucker
For the NH Monitor Dec 28, 2007 Dear President Clinton: Your comment in the Concord Monitor regarding your perception of independent voters was distressing to me and my fellow independents in New Hampshire ("Bill Clinton: Hillary has resilience," M read more
Claiming Democracy Conference
The Independent View | November 25th 2007 by Michael Drucker
Long time independent and election law attorney Harry Kresky (above right with CUIP's Nancy Ross and Citizens in Charge's Paul Jacob) led a workship at the Claim Democracy conference which took place on the campus of the University of District Columb read more
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