Three Independents May be Elected to U.S. Senate This Year

Posted on by September 25, 2024

It is likely that at least two independents will win U.S. Senate races this year, and there is a 50-50 chance that a third one will also win.

Bernie Sanders in Vermont, and Angus King in Maine, are independent U.S. Senators running for re-election. Both are expected to win. And in Nebraska, a Survey USA Poll shows that Dan Osborn might win as well. He is an independent candidate and is the only opponent for Republican incumbent Deb Fischer. See this story.

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Three Independents May be Elected to U.S. Senate This Year — 34 Comments

  9. Go Osborn! He could be the first independent U.S. Senator from Nebraska since the late, great George W. Norris, one of the most honest and principled men in American political history. Shunned by his own party — the Republicans tried repeatedly to deny him the party’s nomination throughout the Great Depression — he was re-elected to a fourth term as an independent in 1936.

    He was one of the least partisan U.S. Senators in American history — he genuinely cared about the country — and left the Beltway no wealthier than when he first arrived almost 35 years earlier.

  11. https://www.yahoo.com/news/utah-supreme-court-decide-viability-000238197.html

    Utah Supreme Court crushes constitutional amendment deemed ‘counterfactual’ by lower court
    HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
    Updated Wed, September 25, 2024 at 10:39 PM EDT
    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah voters will not decide this November on a constitutional amendment asking voters to cede power over ballot measures to lawmakers after the Utah Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision voiding the amendment.

    The five-justice panel grilled attorneys for the Legislature earlier Wednesday before siding with opponents of the amendment who argued it would have been presented to voters in a misleading manner.

    Republican legislative leaders, who penned the ballot question, had asked the high court to overturn a district judge’s ruling and put Amendment D back before the public.

    The amendment would have given lawmakers constitutional authority to rewrite voter-approved ballot measures or repeal them entirely.

    Lawmakers also could have applied their new power to initiatives from past election cycles.
    —-
    FASCIST GOP EFFORT TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY INITS LOSES

  12. Which (former) member of congress was it again that coined the term “IINO – independent in name only” for Angus King, Bernie Sanders and Kyrsten Sinema because they invariably joined the Democrats?
    A) Senator Joe Manchin
    B) Congressman Thomas Massie
    C) Congressman Justin Amash
    D) Senator Rand Paul

  13. We all know that Angus King and Bernie Sanders aren’t actually independent. They pretend to be, but they caucus with the Democrats and vote with them 95% of the time. I also highly doubt that Dan Osborn could possibly win with Trump dragging him across the finish line.

  16. So glad that the national Reform Party, which had been hoodwinked by RFK’s independent presidential candidacy — a Trump ruse from the outset — has endorsed Osborn.

  19. JR–

    NORRIS SCREWUP-

    PARTISAN ONE HOUSE LEGIS VIA PR

    NONPARTISAN EXECS/JUDICS VIA APPV
    —
    COMMIE USA SENATOR IN TX IN NOV 2024 ?????

  20. I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think this will end up something like 57% – 43% in favor of the Republican.

  25. Unicameral legislatures are a bad idea. Legislatures should have to think twice before they pass anything. Sometimes even that is not enough to stop bad ideas getting enacted.

  26. Legislatures are a bad idea. The law should be simple, like a constitution. Changing the laws should be rare and difficult, like a constitutional convention.

  31. We don’t care Darcy. You are a “communist and a retard. Go away” — Anonymous Bill.

    A Communist?

    What a sad comment.

    Richard Winger’s BAN website used to be one of the greatest resources for serious advocates for open politics in this country than you can possibly imagine.

    I wish Richard would exercise some editorial control here.

    Assholes abound.

    It’s not worth saying anything here anymore.

  32. “We don’t care Darcy. You are a ‘communist and a retard. Go away’ — Anonymous Bill.

    A Communist?

    What a sad comment.

    Richard Winger’s BAN website used to be one of the greatest resources for serious advocates for open politics in this country, far more than your mind can possibly imagine.

    I wish Richard would exercise some editorial control here.

    Assholes abound.

    It’s not worth saying anything here anymore.

  33. The comments here by anonymous Trump supporters — trolls, one and all —and elsewhere are almost worse than the Democratic Party’s egregious, aggressive and unprecedented attempts to keep Bobby Kennedy’s once-promising candidacy off the ballot in state after state.

    The drug-addled RFK, Jr., sold out. Plain and simple…He has no backbone.

    It doesn’t matter. He wasn’t that impressive anyway. Just another privileged white kid.

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