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Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch in the Arizona Republic on the Rise of Independent Voters
In today's Arizona Republic, Reason.tv Editor Nick Gillespie and Reason magazine Editor Matt Welch write an essay-slash-excerpt from The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America, titled "Free minds and spirits threaten 2 parties' grip." Here's how it begins:
A growing majority of us have responded to the dysfunctional theatrics of Republican and Democratic misgovernance by making a rational choice.
We ignore politics most of the time[.]
Read the whole thing here.
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THE AUTHORS
Nick Gillespie is editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com and almost certainly the only journalist who has interviewed bat-eating rock star Ozzy Osbourne and Nobel prize-winning economists Milton Friedman and Vernon Smith.
Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine. From 2006 to 2007, he served as assistant editorial pages editor at the Los Angeles Times, shaping and writing editorials, and overseeing the section's web operations.
From 2002 to 2006, Welch worked at Reason as an associate editor and media columnist. From 2002 to 2004, he also wrote a regular.
