Does your state allow you to vote as an independent?

I'm not a constitutional scholar - far from it. However, I did take several political sciences courses in college which dealt very specifically with the Constitution of the United States. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that you have to be a Republican or Democrat. In fact it was only after 1800 that parties started showing up on ballots. State election commissions are dominated by the dominant party in their state and basically stack the deck against any oppostion. Political parties would totally eliminate the independent voter if they could. Hillary Clinton, Fred Thompson,Mitt Romney,Barack Obama,and the rest of the candidates are totally fearful of the independent voter. Independents don't vote the party line. During the years I was a party voter I affiliated with the party because it stood for more things I was for than I was against.

Many people register as a Democrat or Republican because they want to have clout in a Democrat or Republican primary. Recently we saw how worthless that was in the reelection of U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Very conservative Lieberman became at odds with the Democratic Party establishment both in Connecticut and the rest of the Nation. The party in Connecticut supported someone more in line with their views hoping if this person won that Lieberman would go away. Lieberman lost in the primary and to the dismay of his enemies he ran as an independent totally smoking the Democratic candidate in the general election. Today, Lieberman as an Independent senator finds himself in a more powerful position that he did as a Democrat. The margins are so close in the Senate that both parties suck up to him.

The Independent voter in the 2008 election will be in a tremendous power position to sway the election one way or the other. Wouldn't it be nice if we had an Independent Candidate who could win? Are you listening Lou Dobbs?