. >> i am a democrat but i followed with great interest the candidacy of inglis kaine who was a republican turned independent and he seemed to me to represent the idea of post partisanship working for the people. but even though you said 40% of the registered voters in the united states are independent it's incredibly hard for them to get on the ballot. i think one of the down sides of the primary system in washington and california is that a completely shots out of them in the general election and so i am wondering over the next couple of years what you see as being the volubility of independent non-partisan candidates and how do you think if they are to become viable. i know you have to be very proud it's hard for somebody as a green party libertarian much of independent party to have much chance to succeed and the system that we have. but what has happened with the california and the washington primary, so even if you end up because it is an attorney general election in a very liberal district to seven in california the berman race, the liberal district it's not ever going to elect a re

. >> i am a democrat but i followed with great interest the candidacy of inglis kaine who was a republican turned independent and he seemed to me to represent the idea of post partisanship working for the people. but even though you said 40% of the registered voters in the united states are independent it's incredibly hard for them to get on the ballot. i think one of the down sides of the primary system in washington and california is that a completely shots out of them in the general election and so i am wondering over the next couple of years what you see as being the volubility of independent non-partisan candidates and how do you think if they are to become viable. i know you have to be very proud it's hard for somebody as a green party libertarian much of independent party to have much chance to succeed and the system that we have. but what has happened with the california and the washington primary, so even if you end up because it is an attorney general election in a very liberal district to seven in california the berman race, the liberal district it's not ever going to elect a re