Voters unhappy with polarization are going independent

The bitter debt debate may be over on Capitol Hill, but average Americans are having trouble getting the taste out of their mouths.  According to the Pew research group, a growing number of Americans are disgusted with both parties, and are choosing to affiliate with neither.  Independents have played a determining role in the last three national elections.   Anna Sale,  reporter for It’s a Free Country, the politics website for The Takeaway’s co-producer WNYC Radio, just returned from Colorado’s 4th Congressional district where she’s been looking for 2012’s independent voter.  Nancy Ross, director of national organizing for IndependentVoting.org, tells about the growing trend of the independent voter.