[pepsionice]

You are party correct. But on the Republicans....they probably only make up 40-percent. Independents hold around 20-percent of the vote, and are the ones to swing elections one way or another. It was the independents who swung the vote in 1992 for Ross Perot...helping Clinton to win in the end. Same story in 1912, independents went to Roosevelt, helping Wilson to win.

[kiryandil]

You are party correct. But on the Republicans....they probably only make up 40-percent. Independents hold around 20-percent of the vote, and are the ones to swing elections one way or another.

Right.

The Perot conservatives have been voting Republican since 1994.

A respectable percentage fell off the wagon in 1996, but since then, Pubbie.