[Hostage]

> “That’s an opinion not backed up any any current polling”

It’s not an opinion. It’s fact.

From the much more accurate Market Research Foundation Study:

http://marketresearchfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Analysis-Of-Party-Identification-for-Market-Research-Foundation.pdf

The key finding: “Independents are nearly twice as likely to have conservative views as liberal ones.”

[Popman]

Self-Identified Partisans in America A plurality of Americans self-identify as politically Independent. Among individuals who chose to align themselves with a major political party, 28% choose the Democratic Party while just 17% identify with Republicans. (Figure 1)

Intersting study...though it's only based on 1508 people...pretty small sample...

Seems to me after reading the study, independents vote based on the election time kitchen table topics...economic, healthcare, moral issues...rather than on principles...