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Article: Without McCain, will independents turn out?(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
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- March 13, 2000
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U.S. presidential politics took an odd turn this year. Facing a candidate with full support of the establishment, John McCain tried to win the Republican presidential nomination by appealing to non-Republicans. In several major primaries, McCain actually pulled over half of his support from voters who described themselves as independents or Democrats.
It almost seemed that McCain was running for the nomination of a party that was not quite the Republican Party. Let's call it the Republican-Independent Party. And lo and behold, swarms of new voters, tired of the traditional two-party tango, responded. The boost in turnout in presidential primaries this year was ...