By most measures, the US has over 40 million independent or unaffiliated voters representing a third or more of the electorate. Yet despite large and growing numbers, independents are often missing from the national conversation.
Independents have no cable channel or national newspaper. You rarely encounter independent viewpoints on major networks or opinion pages. And there’s a surprising lack of scholarship on independents as well.
Who are American’s prominent, politically-engaged political independents? We’ll meet four in Episode 3:
Laura Sibilia, a three-term independent legislator in the Vermont Assembly; John Opdycke, President of Open Primaries; Thom Reilly, Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education; and Jacqueline Salit, President of Independentvoting.org.
Original Music by Ryan Adair Rooney
For show notes and transcript, please visit our website: www.fluentknowledge.com/shows/the-purple-principle/americas-independent-voters-and-voices
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