I’m blogging once again after taking a long break. I come back with Clinton vs. Obama in full swing for the Democratic Party nomination. The latest reports point to Hillary Clinton winning Pennsylvania. All three presidential frontrunners appealed to pro wrestling fans this week with appearances in WWE Raw

On the Independent front, in recent weeks I started getting emails from a new organization, a political action committee called the Independent Movement. Headed by veteran CUIP activists Jim Mangia and Linda Curtis, this looks like a serious effort to get the 72 million Americans who are political independents organized into a political force. If the initial impression I have is correct, they appear to be on the ground floor of trying to start a MoveOn for political independents.

From the About Us section of their web site:

IndependentMovement.org. is the only political action committee in America that’s focused on fundamental political restructuring and government reform. A growing majority of Americans believe (as you do!), that these structural reforms are a pre-requisite to getting any new and substantial policy solutions to the table. All of our funding will come from ordinary Americans — not from special interests!

IndependentMovement.org will support candidates and ballot measures, which advance a truly nonpartisan independent progressive movement. With your help we can begin to address the problems that continue to fester under strict two-party rule, such as the war in Iraq, growing poverty in America, the dire need for real health care reform, and predatory globalization.

IndependentMovement.org believes that it is the fundamental right of every American to have a voice in the political process. That’s why, with your help, we can make these reforms part of the national dialogue:

Open primaries (allow independent voters to vote in party primaries)

Equal media access for all qualified candidates

Redistricting reform (taking the power to redraw district boundaries out of the hands of self-interested career politicians)

Universal voter registration – so all US citizens are permanently registered to vote.

Eliminate the electoral college and initiate direct popular vote for presidential elections.

So far so good. They are saying all the correct things that a real and realistic political reform movement ought to be talking about. I’ll be closely observing how their effort shapes up in the next coming weeks and what type of campaigns they will enact. I am also curious if they would be willing to work together with other organizations (and which organizations) in following their reform agenda.