In April I wrote this nationally syndicated Cagle column “Will The senate Soon Get a Truly Independent Senator?” in reference to the prospects that independent Angus King could win Maine’s Senate seat. And John Avlon wrote this column in The Daily Beast.
Now the answer increasingly seems to be (a resounding) “YES.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.