The last of the GOP moderates

For those who support centrist, bipartisan solutions to our nation’s many serious challenges and who reject the idea that the only way to serve in Congress is to blindly follow the leader and toe the party line, the announcement that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is leaving the Senate is sad news indeed. Snowe is a pro-choice GOP moderate, a vanishing breed in Congress.
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4 Types of Independent Voters Who Could Swing the 2012 Elections

It’s a beautiful, brilliant autumn Sunday in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, a city of about 10,000 where the Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers converge about 200 miles west of Denver. Several dozen residents have gathered at the Blue Bird Café, an outdoor clothing and equipment outfitter, bookstore and café featuring gourmet coffee, organic ice cream, gluten-free cupcakes, ceiling fans, and 19th-century saloon-style furnishings. They have come to meet Kathleen Curry, their state representative who in 2010 was running for re-election to the legislature as an independent write-in candidate, a serious uphill battle.
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