Jackie Salit's Commentary on the Role of Independent Voters in the Iowa Caucus

Jackie Salit, IndependentVoting.org's President, offers commentary on the role of independent voters in the Iowa caucus, the upcoming Presidential primaries and beyond, in her latest OpEd for Huffington Post.

CLICK HERE to read her OpEd.

She writes:

You did good in Iowa, Bernie. But here are some things you should do now. While you're in New Hampshire, go visit Tiani Coleman, head of New Hampshire Independent Voters. Ask her to help you tell the world you pledge to fight to make the electoral system fair for everyone. No one should be required to join a political party as a condition of voting. New Hampshire permits independents to vote. Half the states don't.

When you head to Nevada, hook up with Catana Barnes, leader of Independent Voters of Nevada. Help her dramatize the fact that the Nevada caucuses exclude independents from casting ballots at all.

And when you get to South Carolina, call Wayne Griffin, the independent City Councilman from Greer who ran Independents for Obama in 2008 and helped to shatter the Clinton firewall. Ask him to campaign with you in the black community and to offer African Americans a new kind of leverage in a new kind of political coalition that puts people ahead of party.

You say you want a revolution, Bernie? Lots of Americans do. And they're not all Democrats.











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