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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:27 PM Jan 2019

More Americans Are Independents

January 7, 2019 at 10:15 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Gallup: “Significantly more U.S. adults continued to identify as political independents (42%) in 2018 than as either Democrats (30%) or Republicans (26%). At least four in 10 Americans have been political independents in seven of the past eight years, including a record-high 43% in 2014.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2019/01/07/more-americans-are-independents/

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More Americans Are Independents (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP

This sounds like the "both parties are the same" fallacy. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #1

Independents typically are underinformed, misinformed, apathetic, lazy, disconnected NRaleighLiberal Jan 2019 #2

Yep, ashamed of calling themselves Republicans, and don't understand the two party system. walkingman Jan 2019 #3

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. This sounds like the "both parties are the same" fallacy.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:28 PM

Jan 2019

And to the uninformed voter, both parties might look the same.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)

2. Independents typically are underinformed, misinformed, apathetic, lazy, disconnected

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 12:55 PM

Jan 2019

or are repubs in disguise.

Anyone independent these days is not paying attention, or lying (if not to us, to themselves)

walkingman

(7,609 posts)

3. Yep, ashamed of calling themselves Republicans, and don't understand the two party system.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:45 PM

Jan 2019

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