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# Republican Candidates Target Independent Voters
- URL: https://ivn.us/republican-candidates-target-independent-voters/
- Published: 2011-11-07T19:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-22T19:21:08.000Z
- Author: Jane Susskind
- Tags: News

[The Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaigns/romney-perry-target-independent-voters-with-bipartisan-cooperative-tone-amid-political-risks/2011/11/05/gIQAUo5BpM%5Fstory.html?ref=ivn.us) talks about the increasingly non-partisan tone in the 2012 Election. Romney and Perry both talk about American as “our” country, not the Democrats’ or Republicans’. Could this shift away from partisanship be exactly what “our” country needs?