The swing vote : the untapped power of independents /
Killian paints a vivid portrait of the swing voters around the country and presents a new model that reveals who they are and what they want from their government and elected officials. She also offers a way forward, including solutions for fixing our broken political system. This is not only a time...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2012
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| Edition: | First ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Who are the Independent voters?
- A brief history of the "passionate center" and how the two parties lost it
- Our broken political system
- "riduculous and embarrassing"
- The NPR republicans and the "live free or die" state: New Hampshire
- The Facebook generation and a rocky mountain high: Colorado
- The old dominion is the new Virginia--home of the Starbucks moms and dads: Virginia
- The ultimate swing state--home of the America first Democrats: Ohio
- Can Congress be fixed?
- A question of leadership: the presidency of Barack Obama
- Trying to restore sanity
- Changing the rules of the game
- Battle cry.