Some Agendas: Black, Independent, Centrist, Extremist

Fred Newman talks about Tavis Smiley, the Black Agenda, Rev. Al Sharpton, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Jessie Jackson, Cornell West and Karl Marx in Talk Talk with Jackie Salit. While campaigns are underway in Louisiana and California for open primaries (Proposition 14 in CA) that would allow independents and decline-to-state voters to vote (right now parties are allowed to exclude these voters), voters in many states are registering into parties in order to vote in primaries. Centrist John Avlon's new book decries political extremes as "wingnuts". NYC Dems don't want charter revision ballot referendum items this year, while Indies want nonpartisan elections.

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