Years ago when I listed to Cspan, they added an “independent” choice for callers. The independents who went out of their way to call were exceptionally cagey (manipulative) DNC slogan speakers pretending to be independents or compeletely stupid gimme girl leftists. Liberals got two to one in calls after they added the independent political category.
It might be different now that the GOP is leftist again and conservatives are more independent and call in to CSPAN. I stopped listening to Cspan expect for certain business when they went left. Leftist (’mainstream’) media at that time were defining independents as moderates and moderates they defined as desiring the leftist agenda.
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