Lura Forcum on the Power of Independents

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks with Lura Forcum, president of the Independent Center, an organization that represents people who are fed up with partisan politics and feel politically homeless. Topics Mike & Lura discuss include: how Lura went from a marketing professor to running the Independent Center true independents vs learners if there are enough independents to make a real difference whether partisan politics is such a bad thing the two-party stranglehold on political power how the Independent Center hopes to change things Check out Lura's podcast: We Made This Political The Independent Center on X The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Mike’s Substack: What Fresh Hell is This? Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.4	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:49.4	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski.
0:53.1	My guest today is Laura Forkham.
0:54.7	Professor Forkham has a PhD in consumer psychology, but she moved from academia to politics and
1:00.8	is now the president of the Independence Center, which represents people who are fed up with
1:06.2	partisan politics and feel politically homeless. Laura Fork and welcome to the show.
1:11.9	Hi, thank you so much for having me.
1:14.1	So I wanted to touch on something very different before we sort of got into the meat of
1:18.5	things because I'm pretty sure you're the first marketing professor I've talked to on
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