Pollster Stanley B. Greenberg has this interview in New York Magazine. He says poll data shows that independent voters “are a hodgepodge”; they are not a monolithic group of moderates. On the other hand, he then proceeds to characterize them, which seems somewhat contradictory.

He also says that it is virtually inevitable that there will be a strong presidential candidate in 2012 running outside the two major parties.

Mary Ann Lindley, editorial page editor of the Tallahassee Democrat, has commentary about Americans Elect in the September 24 issue of her newspaper. I haven’t linked to it, because if I do, anyone who clicks on the link simply gets a notice from the newspaper that the reader must pay to read the column. But anyone who uses news.google.com and searches for “New player takes on the two-party system” should find the column and then it can be read freely.

For more than a week, Pennsylvania Senator Dominic Pileggi (R-Chester) has been getting publicity for his plan to introduce a bill, providing that Pennsylvania would elect one presidential elector from each U.S. House district. However, his staff refuses to release the text of the proposed bill, even though it must have been written, because Senator Pileggi has been circulating a copy of it to other state legislators, asking them to co-sponsor it.

The details could be injurious to minor party and independent presidential candidates. It is not clear if the bill will require a candidate for presidential elector to live in any particular district. In Pennsylvania, petitioning presidential candidates must find their candidates for presidential elector before beginning to circulate the petition, and then must print the names of the presidential elector candidates on the petition. The paperwork burden will be increased if the list must include a candidate for presidential elector who resides in each district.