Nope. In Massachusetts, people who identify as "independents" are typically Democrats who don't want others to think of them as lock-step with the machine that is the Democrat party here in MA.
I’m unenrolled in MA and usually vote Republican (not that we get many here and folks like Brown and Romney are not hardcore conservatives to be sure). Nevertheless, ask Dems about people like Scott and Mitt and they’ll say they’re
hardcore Nazi Rethuglicans who want to starve kids, kill old
people, wreck the economy. (Brown has to win their vote and his ads portray him as “the second most bipartisan Senator”. In MA you have to do that to win lefty votes.
You have to be a moderate, since a hardcore conservative
might get 10 per cent of the vote here. The alternative
is Liz Moron.)
It’s Brown or a woman who is at best 1/32nd Cherokee and says she is a “Native American” (aka Amer. Indian). Seriously. The uber moonbat.
M.L King by the way who wanted people to be judged by
content of character not color of skin (Warren is a Red
Indian—clearly!) was actually a registered Republican.
Lefty in many ways but King actually belonged to the party of Lincoln.
OK. I guess the definition of the word "independent" takes on local meaning in MA to mean slightly different flavor of Democrat.