Independents See Through Washington's Magic Show

Jackie Salit is President of IndependentVoting.org, a national association of independent voters. She recently completed work on the Independence Party's campaign for Mike Bloomberg in which he became the first independent mayor of New York City.

"The Washington political game is like a magic show. It's filled with smoke and mirrors which create the perception that one thing is happening, when something else altogether is going on."

"Independents backed Obama - with passion - in 2008 because he wanted to find a way out of the partisan paralysis. But he hasn't, and it might be because he simply can't. The partisan structure of Congress and of the party system overall won't allow it. That's why the independent movement is pressing for structural political reforms to shake up partisan control and create new non-partisan possibilities."

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Michael H. Drucker
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