U.S. Sen Joe Manchin, a mainstay of Democratic Party politics in West Virginia, has left the party and registered as an independent. Manchin released a statement and a photo Friday, saying he changed his registration to unaffiliated at the West Virginia State Capitol. “From my first ...
by John Opdycke I’ve been an independent voter since I was 18. Back then, I knew less than zero about politics. I went to the University of Michigan to play soccer, get an education and learn something about how the world worked. I started attending Democratic and Republican ...
by Stephen N. Reed and Ken Ramsey Soon after we met as graduate students at Emory University in Fall 1989, we were both struck by how similar our observations about state politics were. One of us would complain about a corrupt political leader back in our state, a power-lord who was ...
by Jared Alper The eyes of the political world were locked in when the candidates for governor of Virginia stepped on the stage for a debate on Sept. 28. With the race between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe tightening, the table was set for a dramatic, ...
by Dave Anderson Gallup’s fresh quarterly assessment of Americans’ political leanings finds 44% of Americans regard themselves as independents. This is a remarkable statistic — especially because we are living in a time when traditional media and social media continue to hammer ...