"some praising Trump’s business record and willingness to dispense with political correctness. "

Northern Virginia is increasingly progressive...and will help the Dems win Virginia.

N=3? Compelling.

"independent leaning voters." Most election cycles they seem to be more conservatives who are embarrassed to identify as republicans in my opinion.

... as if they're "thoughtful" and as if they "carefully consider" the issues and because they want to feel as if they're more important that mere party loyalists. They want to be coddled and romanced.

as increases in those who identify as Independents. Independents are mainly disenfranchised Repugs. More recent increases during the past campaign season were Sanders supporters of those who were registering for the first time.

older brothers has recently considered himself an Indy after being a registered Democrat for a number of years. He has never voted for a Republican, and he supported Sanders this year, but I think he's ashamed to call himself a Democrat. He thinks the party takes Black voters for granted, and he distrusts Hillary Clinton. I also had a professor up at Humboldt State who considers himself an Indy, saying that he "votes for people, not parties", though he also said he usually votes for Dems. With these two at least, I think it's a matter of them not wanting to tie themselves to any party and maybe using that as a form of protest.

Because they moved up from a single to a double wide. Not really important demographic in this area.

Lying is not avoiding 'political correctness' it's just plain lying. Trump is allowed to lie because he says anyone criticizing his lies is just being politically correct. The media needs to stop this bull shit in its tracks every time the term comes u;

"political correctness" stuff, someone should respond to him by saying something like "so it's a bad thing to be respectful towards other people?" That's really what it's about. He and his supporters want to get away with being bullies and being obnoxious and not get called out.