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There are very few true independents. They may label themselves such, but they don’t vote that way. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-americans-who-iden
by MattGaiser 5y ago
There are very few true independents. They may label themselves such, but they don’t vote that way.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-americans-who-identify-as-independent-are-actually-independent-thats-really-bad-for-politics/amp/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/few-americans-who-ident...
They just want to avoid the label of being one or the other.
- Dylan16807 5y agoWhat is a "true independent"? Are they allowed to have any opinions about political parties? At a federal level, based on how strongly everyone toes the line, voting is basically just picking a party. So even if 100% of the way you choose is based on the individual candidate's actions, and your vote varies widely in more local elections, at a federal level the end result is probably the same party over and over for many years.