Seeing only percentages without also relative sizes of each groups makes it hard for me to infer that. If someone identified as independent due to not feeling l

Seeing only percentages without also relative sizes of each groups makes it hard for me to infer that. If someone identified as independent due to not feeling like there were differences between the parties in the past, maybe the growing divide in worldview of each side caused them to start to see a difference. Put another way, maybe the independents who trust the media found it harder to not pick a side.