Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined
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Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined
from MrsJJS on 07/08/2015 07:24 AM A recent NBC poll confirms that the partisan political environment is, in fact, taking a toll on the two major parties, with voter registration revealing that self-identified independents are the fastest growing voting bloc in America.
NBC commentators coin it "the rise of an 'independents' era," reporting that in 2014 the number of people self-identifying as independent was at 39 percent, passing that of Democrats (32 percent) and Republicans (23 percent).
As of June 2015, the number of self-identifying independents has grown to 45 percent — just 2 points shy of the number of Democrats and Republicans COMBINED.
"The largest political party in the United States in no longer a party at all," NBC reports.
"In the 31 states plus the District of Columbia where voters have to pick a party when registering to vote, unaffiliated or no party voters are now the leading political party in 12 of those state, and in a few of them, they are the majority of all registered voters."
In Florida, a major 2016 battleground state, the number of independent voters has grown by one million voters in the last 10 years. Democrats have only seen an increase of 300,000 voters, and Republicans lag with just 200,000 additional voters in the same time period.
What does this mean for 2016? Candidates will have to start listening to the nation's increasingly independent-minded electorate if they want to distinguish themselves. The only issue is, do they know how?
http://truthinmedia.com/poll-independents-will-soon-outnumber-republicans-and-democrats-combined/
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Re: Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined
from BatmansEpicUnderstudy on 07/08/2015 08:22 AMIt's about time, in my opinion.
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from Commenting_1 on 07/08/2015 02:41 PMI agree.. it's about time.
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from Yami_no_KoHime on 07/08/2015 05:10 PMCool. I don't even know if I count as an independant.
I mean, I got some 'Conservative' views and some 'Liberal', so...
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Re: Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined
from Jdogg on 07/09/2015 06:06 AMI have consitered myself an Independent since I first started voting many years ago, People have become so disgusted with both parties and candidates, I really wished someone would step up and become an Independant presidential candidate.
I sure wished Trey Gowdy would run as one under the Independant candidate for president.
Re: Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined
from stanley on 07/11/2015 05:51 AMThe American populus is waking up to the history of manipulation, not just by parties but by the media. This can ony be a good thing. What's so great about wearing a badge that says "I belong to this group?" Better to say: I vote depending upon what's presented at the time. I'm liking the new American voter more and more...
Re: Poll: Independents Will Soon Outnumber Republicans and Democrats Combined
from Brian on 07/11/2015 11:17 AMBut they all still vote either Democrat or Republican. Until there are oodles of Independent Candidates to vote for nothing is going to change. And if the Independent Candidates are just repackaged Dems. & Repubs. then again nothing is going to change.