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Two months after it was due and a month after the House and Senate passed their own budget proposals, President Obama unveiled his blueprint for fiscal year 201
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What with all the partisan peacocking going on in Washington, polls like the released Thursday by Gallup serve as a welcome reminder that there are still a lot of voters out there who haven t gotten a party ID tattooed on their foreheads.A plurality of American adults--37 percent--identified themselves as independent in the most recent survey, conducted in mid-July. The remainder split between the Republicans and Democrats about evenly, at 29 percent and 32 percent respectively, a difference that s within the margin of error of 3 points.But there isn t an election going on right now, and if history is any guide, this figure will plummet between now and November 2008. As Gallup notes, the third quarter of an off-year when there are no elections is when the percentage of independents tends to peak. Obsessive efforts to elicit a voter s partisan identity a
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