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The Untapped Power of Independents
St. Martin's Press
January 2012
On Sale: January 17, 2012
326 pages
ISBN: 0312581777
EAN: 9780312581770
Kindle: B005QNH50O
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Non-Fiction
As our country’s politicians engage in bitter partisan
battles, focused on protecting their own jobs but not on
doing the nation’s business, and political pundits shout
louder and shriller to improve their ratings, it’s no
wonder that Americans have little faith in their government.
But is America as divided as the politicians and talking
heads would have us believe? Do half of Americans
stand on the right and the other half on the
left with a no-man’s-land between them?
Hardly.
Forty percent of all American voters are Independents who
occupy the ample political and ideological space in the
center. These Americans are anything but divided, and
they’re being ignored. These Independents make up the
largest voting bloc in the nation and have determined the
outcome of every election since World War II. Every year
their numbers grow, as does the unconscionable disconnect
between them and the officials who are supposed to represent
them.
The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of
Independents tells the story of how our polarized
political system is not only misrepresenting America but
failing it. Linda Killian looks beyond the polls and the
headlines and talks with the frustrated citizens who
are raising the alarm about the acute bi-polarity, special
interest-influence, and gridlock in Congress, asking why
Obama’s postpartisan presidency is anything but, and
demanding realism, honest negotiation, and a sense of
responsibility from their elected officials.
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 timely shot across the bows of both parties but
an impassioned call to Independents to bring America back
into balance.
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