Summary: With President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney neck-and-neck this presidential election, the swing vote is more coveted than ever. Linda Killian, political journalist and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, says 40 percent of all registered voters are independents. But exactly who makes up this massive bloc? In “The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents,” Killian focuses on how Virginia, New Hampshire, Ohio and Colorado figure in the national election and why independents in those states feel alienated from the two-party system.
