The Independent Rundown, November 11
The day’s essential reads for independents and centrists.
Independent Nation gives you the day’s 5 essential reads for independents and centrists:
1. “Will Conservative Donors Ever Open Their Wallets Again?,” in The Sunday Telegraph.
Crabby American billionaires want their money back, writes John Avlon.
2. “A Veterans Day Like None Other Before,” in The Atlantic.
Today, America must make peace with her veterans.
3. “What Romney Lost,” in The New York Review of Books.
As a candidate, Mitt Romney abandoned everything he ever stood for. What can we expect after such a cynical campaign?
4. “The GOP Polling Debacle,” at Politico.
The Republican Party overdosed on its own internal polling.
5. “How Obama Won the Middle,” in the New York Daily News.
Pollster Doug Schoen runs down the numbers, and finds that independents and moderates may have made the difference.
Send stories for the Independent Rundown to matt.deluca@newsweekdailybeast.com. Follow him on Twitter: @DeLucaMattS.
About the Author
John Avlon
John Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, and the host of Beast TV. He is a CNN contributor regularly appearing on the show Erin Burnett Out Front at 7 p.m. EST. He won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best online column in 2012.
Avlon: Government Has 'Proper' Regulation Role
Last week's tragic fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, has brought the issue of government regulation back to the forefront. On Friday night's Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Beast's Political Director John Avlon denounces deregulation rhetoric.
Unlimited Funds
Probing the Super-PAC Economy
The Dark Money Shuffle
The strange, opaque world of politically minded nonprofits. By John Avlon and Michael Keller.
See More Politics
From The Daily Beast
In Praise of Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee was probably the most prescient person in post-9/11 Washington, says Michael Tomasky.
Comments