CUIP turns away from party building to movement building, focusing on the 43% of Americans who identify as independents. Advocates for structural reforms to empower independent voters: open primaries and presidential debates key among them.  Drawing on long history of efforts to open the presidential debates—lawsuits against IRS, League of Women Voters and The Commission on Presidential Debates (1988, 1992), and testimony before FEC and Congressional hearings, etc.—CUIP launches a Campaign to Change the Question on the presidential debate poll, urging that the 15% criteria used for inclusion in the debates should be based on the question, “Who do you want to see in the debates?” not “Who are you going to vote for?”