Senators from one party, opposed to Kavanaugh from the start, distorted his record and criticized the judge for behaving "Entitled" to a high court seat, while senators from the other party - before his accuser even testified - said publicly they would support him no matter what information the hearing brought forth.
Flake has made clear his lament - in a book, interviews and Senate floor speeches - that the takeover of the Republican Party by President Trump has nearly destroyed it.
Joel Searby, an independent consultant who serves as senior strategist at Unite America - a group promoting and supporting independent candidates nationwide - has been speaking to chiefs of staff for seven senators from both parties about the possibility, as well as Alan Frumin, the former Senate parliamentarian.
Gallup polling finds 44 percent of Americans don't belong to the Republican or Democratic party, a 35 percent increase since 2004 in the 31 states that register voters by party.
In more than half those states, independents outnumber one or both parties.
Only independents can make the two parties work with each other instead of against each other.
As Flake steps down from his seat in December, Collins and Murkowski may seem the last of a dying breed, but independents have so permeated each of their home state legislatures in Maine and Alaska that party line votes there are no longer possible.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/04/more_independents_in_the_senate_--_please_138252.html
Flake has made clear his lament - in a book, interviews and Senate floor speeches - that the takeover of the Republican Party by President Trump has nearly destroyed it.
Joel Searby, an independent consultant who serves as senior strategist at Unite America - a group promoting and supporting independent candidates nationwide - has been speaking to chiefs of staff for seven senators from both parties about the possibility, as well as Alan Frumin, the former Senate parliamentarian.
Gallup polling finds 44 percent of Americans don't belong to the Republican or Democratic party, a 35 percent increase since 2004 in the 31 states that register voters by party.
In more than half those states, independents outnumber one or both parties.
Only independents can make the two parties work with each other instead of against each other.
As Flake steps down from his seat in December, Collins and Murkowski may seem the last of a dying breed, but independents have so permeated each of their home state legislatures in Maine and Alaska that party line votes there are no longer possible.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/04/more_independents_in_the_senate_--_please_138252.html
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