Matthew7:14
The percentage of the population that is truly guided by the Holy Spirit, and is "good" is very, very small.
Good luck in trying to find a majority of what you seek in this world.
Ah, I click independent on surveys because I’m not an R. I hate many Rs.
I’m a conservative but that’s NEVER a choice at least on the surveys I get.
I think Independents will break towards Trump.
If you’re not a solid dem, this time around they are so repulsive that it would be hard for an I to vote for them.
I wonder which is more important ideology or personality plus delivery during campaigning? Also the economic demographics, are indies well to do, poor, middle class, educated, married, etc etc. I sometimes think people take a middle ground approach to prevent having to explain their choices.
If you go and look internationally, you usually end up with about fifty percent ‘hard-dedicated’ to a party, around forty-percent ‘leaners’ and 10-percent who could flip election to election, depending on the candidate, the platform, or just some unusual variation.
A good example, in France twenty years ago....the two primary parties were a left-of-center group and a right-of-center group. The two parties could usually take the bulk of voters. Well, in 2017, those two parties could only generate 20-percent combined. The Macron-Party (out of thin air) brought new variations into an election that hadn’t been seen before.
In the US case, identity-politics play a key role now. The Democrats have worked for twenty years to build this into their central path to voters. Their problem though....people are waking up, and taking the ‘red-pill’....realizing that they were lied to or deceived. So I would suggest a fourth group to Pell’s study...the potential ‘red-pill’ crowd who might flip permanently to the GOP.
I’m an “I”, but I’ve always voted “R” in state and national elections. Avoid the robocalls and push polls.
I don’t see how someone could follow politics even a little and not lean one way or the other.
I still say independents are Leftist who would rather not face the fact they are.
It’s like on C-Span when they have Rs, Ds, and Is calling in.
This Is repeat the Ds talking points 80-90% of the time.
Matthew7:14
The percentage of the population that is truly guided by the Holy Spirit, and is "good" is very, very small.
Good luck in trying to find a majority of what you seek in this world.
They are not independent, they just don't want to carry the label of "Democrat."
Many Democrats call themselves "Independents," for the dame reason Liberals call themselves "Progressives."
live in California. I am pretty open about being republican but I have friends who claim to be independent because they do not want to be retaliated against by demacrat employers or teachers if still in coledge.
I describe myself as “independent” because I have no party affiliation. But you better believe I have highly partisan political leanings on any given issue.
From what I’ve observed, most “independents” call themselves “independents” because they are too embarrassed to refer to themselves as liberal snowflake democrats.
PDJT’s approval rating is over 50%.
Come on.
I am not registered to any political party and thus, I am an independent. However, I have never and will never vote for a democrat. So where does that leave a voter like me?
JoMa
The GOP establishment has broken the trust with open borders, endless feckless wars, the leadership lied to a POTUS of their own party.
I gave money to RNC for 2018. I think it was during Kavanaugh. They p*ssed it away. I don't trust them. Thanks to them my "safe" GOP districted in GA was flipped to RAT. I didn't escape CA to be represented in Congress by a RAT.
There was some survey from Trump or RNC that broke it down to see if you were a Trump supporter more than a Republican supporter and so forth.
You cannot have endless cheap labor. You must have control over the border. You must enforce immigration policy. You must not give away citizenship to the lawless in an underground economy.
I agree with Trump we can clearly reach a point of peak employment and workforce participation where it makes sense to allow H1B visas because America cannot supply the workforce needed (thank abortion on demand?) in the growing economy. But H1B cannot continued to be abused to suppress wages among skilled Americans or shut them out of the workforce because they "cost too much" compared to their foreign replacements.
No, Trump needs to hold the line and run as a nationalist pro worker candidate. Let them come to us not CHANGE FOR THEM.
The article, and too many in politics and the media equate independent voters with switch hitters.
I have often posted here about switch hitters. A Chicago minority dominated suburb went back and forth from 55-D to 65-R to 85-D to 87-R. I know these voters. They are not independent. But the are switch hitters.
Many are strategic. Both R and D good government types were outraged at House Minority Leader Bob Michel’s endorsement of Democrat Al-the-Pal in 1992 and voted for Carole Mosley-Braun in the primary. 6 years later the same R and D good government types voted for Republican Peter Fitzgerald in the primary.
In the same 1998 primary, Republican Pro-Lifers voted in the Democrat primary for Proshard and Democrat Pro-choicers and LGBT voted in the Republican Primary for George Ryan.
By voting in the party primary they did not switch parties. They voted strategically.
Here in Atlanta precincts voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Clinton and a couple months later voted overwhelmingly for the Republican for Mayor. The Republican lost for mayor because Republicans in the Republican part of town, her part of town, did not vote at all. They stayed home.
There is a big difference between independent and vote splitters and party switchers. Nobody who splits or switches claims to be “independent” although that is the way the media mindlessly labels them.
US Politics 101. The United States have two political parties: Republicans and Democrats. Choose one. This rule applies to everyone, including so called Independents.