We Asked, You Answered! is the first of a series of weekly polls. We want to hear from you! What does the term independent voter mean to you?

The results are in! And among the diverse set of answers we received, it seems one thing’s for sure: independent voters cannot be labeled. Some lean to the left, some to the right, but either way, independent voters are a group of independently minded, diverse, politically active citizens. Here’s what some people had to say: 

What is the conference?

The Independent Voter Project legislative exchange conference is an annual event that began in the 1980s. The goal of the conference is to bring together policy makers, policy experts, and business leaders to have the open and honest conversations.  These conversations are increasingly difficult to have around the capitol culture that rewards partisanship and punishes compromise.

The Founders never assumed indefinite free speech. They assumed that after two weeks, any protest would be wiped out by smallpox.
STEPHEN COLBERT, on why it was okay for Mayor Bloomberg to send in cops to crack down on Occupy Wall Street protestors while he claimed to be protecting their right to free speech, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)

Ralph Nader has put out a call for a "grand series" of twenty-one nationwide presidential debates in 2012, arguing that control over topics and format should be wrested from the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates and placed in the hands of local communities all over the country.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has released a statement on the USDA's recently completed tally for fiscal year 2011 farm exports. As it turns out, one area of the country's economy is operating on a trade surplus and raking in record revenues.

Before arriving at the most recent police eviction of Occupy Oakland demonstrators from Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California, let's review the series of events-- and policy flip flops-- that got us here.