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What does it mean?
Feingold is noted for independent thinking rather than strict party loyalty.
In plain terms
He decides cases on facts not party lines.
What can you take from it?
Evaluate issues independently.

Where it applies

  • voting records
  • committee work
  • public perception

Putting it to work

  • track votes
  • assess independence
  • reward autonomy

Questions to consider

  • Is partisanship ever useful?
  • How do you measure independence?

Another view

Independence can look like unpredictability.

More from Russ Feingold

  1. The nation needs more leaders similar to Feingold - a Democrat in the Wisconsin Progressive Party tradition - who don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.

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  2. Feingold won big after voting against the Iraq war and Bush's tax cuts, and having cast the lone vote in the Senate against the Patriot Act

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  3. It's looking like he's omniscient or a mind reader.

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