Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman The 2012 Presidential election campaign is now shaping up as a political life and death battle over independent voters, where the losing candidate will be the one who turns them off the most. Comedian-columnist Will Durst likened the 2012 Presidential primary race to the mania surrounding the video game Angry Birds: “The object of ‘Angry [Read More]

Welcome back from Neverland, America. Republicans asked Americans to treat Herman Cain like a serious candidate and to pretend that turning the moon into the 51st state was a serious idea, and all the while Mitt Romney’s handlers acted as if they believed happy thoughts could make their candidate fly. It didn’t work. Mitt Romney had every advantage in the [Read More]