Americans elect

• ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A group clearing the path for an independent White House bid on Tuesday canceled the first phase of its search for a bipartisan ticket because declared and draft candidates arent mustering enough preliminary support.
(Huffington Post)
• Election Day 2012 will not be a presidential election. It will be a plebiscite. Americans will not only be voting for a president (and a House and a third of the Senate). They will be participating in a plebiscite on the definition of America.
(RealClearPolitics)
• The Daily Beast's John Avlon talks to the founder of the group aiming to shake up the Dem-GOP duopoly.
(Daily Beast)
• Paul Krugman, the liberal Nobel-prize winning economist, says Obamas re-election is by no means a slam dunk numbers paint a conflicting portrait of the economy and many Americans are growing impatient with the current economic climate.
(Yahoo Finance)
• Topix, the largest local forum site in the U.S., introduces Politix (politix.topix.com), a mobile and desktop site that enables Americans to personally connect with the 2012 election by interacting with political news.
(Yahoo Finance)
• They got the signatures they needed to force a recall election, and then some Mr. Barrett favors a more conciliatory special session of the legislature.
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• The Colorado secretary of state is disagreeing with the El Paso County clerk and recorders decision to cancel Democratic and American Constitution Party primaries in the county.
(Denver Post)
• A large proportion of the Asian-American vote is up for grabs in the 2012 election, according to a new poll.
(Atlantic Online)
• While Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders seem to prefer Democratic A strong majority - nearly five out of six - said they will vote in the November 6 presidential election and half of them are more enthusiastic than ever to vote, Lake said.
(msnbc.com)