IMO, ‘Independents’ are a most fickle group who focus in on topics and policies most of the rest of the country don’t. They like being pandered-to for their votes and love to throw a wrench in the political polling machine.
IMO this is all a lot of silliness. The pollsters that us. We’re going to see fight back like no one has imagined and attempts at cheating that will not work this time. But watching the day to day polling like this is a real election with paper ballots and they’re coming up with something like this. That’s amusing.