Jackie is a highly respected political innovator and advocate for the rights of independent voters and President of Independent Voting, the country’s leading strategy and organizing center for indepen
These days there’s a lot going on in the world of independent politics. More to the point, it’s now accurate to say that there is a “world” of independent politics. This is a recent development because, for a long time, the idea that people wanted to be independents,
Sitting in the audience at the Unrig the System Summit in New Orleans two weeks ago, I couldn’t help but feel that a tide was turning. Speaker after speaker at this high energy and well-attended event made one central point: America cannot engage its massive social and economic problems
Dear Oprah, I watched you at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Congratulations! You looked beautiful, and it must have been great to feel all the love in the room. Now the talk is all about you running for president. It seems a lot of people would like you to
Some days I turn on the TV to catch a few segments of “Morning Joe,” the morning political talk show on MSNBC. I tuned in last week for a roundtable discussion of a new poll done by Harvard’s Institute for Politics. The survey looked at political sensibilities and views
In a nutshell, here’s how I would describe the state of American politics. The regulators are unqualified to regulate. The parties are unqualified to govern. The political scientists are unqualified to call themselves scientists. A sorry state of affairs. These days it’s very fashionable to require “evidence-based research”
A woman I know sent me a note the other day. I was surprised, but happy to hear from her as we don’t know each other well. In the note, she explained that she had woken up last Monday morning to the news of the Las Vegas shootings. While
Crazy times in America these days. The wrathful hurricanes pounding the South and the East Coast and the wildfires devouring the Northwest echo our storm-tossed politics. Everything is turned upside down, everything is fevered, everything is being washed away. And yet (and this is the craziest thing of all) nothing
Five years ago, outside of the public eye, a conflict flared inside the inner circle of Democratic Party power. Simply put, it was this: should the Obama re-election campaign find a way to make an explicit appeal to independent voters? Five years ago, the answer was no. I know this
This open letter was written by Jacqueline Salit, president of IndependentVoting.org, and Cathy Stewart, vice president of IndependentVoting.org. In the 48 hours since the mass murder in Orlando, the political environment in our country is worsening. Leaders such as yourselves — who seek the office of the presidency — must
As much as Donald Trump called "foul" on tough questioning in the Fox debate, including the Big Question about whether everyone was committed to supporting the Republican nominee, from the point of view of independent voters, the questioners weren't nearly tough enough. Or, put another way,