Posted on 03/15/2019 9:55:16 PM PDT by blueplum
Voters who identify as independents are rarely actually independent -- and the ones who are tend to not care about politics, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center.
Independents are often seen as the best possibility for potential candidates to pick up votes outside their bases, but most independents actually "lean" toward one party or another, according to the analysis. Less than 10% of the population say they truly have no partisan lean...
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From what I’ve observed, most “independents” call themselves “independents” because they are too embarrassed to refer to themselves as liberal snowflake democrats.
PDJT’s approval rating is over 50%.
Come on.
I am not registered to any political party and thus, I am an independent. However, I have never and will never vote for a democrat. So where does that leave a voter like me?
JoMa
s, PCPOET7 wrote: live in California. I am pretty open about being republican but I have friends who claim to be independent because they do not want to be retaliated against by dem(o)crat snip;.party office holder’s intimidation through services they control
While working precincts in Chicago would run into that all the time. Despite that had been successful in getting opposition party Republican candidates for state and city offices including alderman and state Reps into office. Many times when that happened they would redistrict the area.
The GOP establishment has broken the trust with open borders, endless feckless wars, the leadership lied to a POTUS of their own party.
I gave money to RNC for 2018. I think it was during Kavanaugh. They p*ssed it away. I don't trust them. Thanks to them my "safe" GOP districted in GA was flipped to RAT. I didn't escape CA to be represented in Congress by a RAT.
There was some survey from Trump or RNC that broke it down to see if you were a Trump supporter more than a Republican supporter and so forth.
You cannot have endless cheap labor. You must have control over the border. You must enforce immigration policy. You must not give away citizenship to the lawless in an underground economy.
I agree with Trump we can clearly reach a point of peak employment and workforce participation where it makes sense to allow H1B visas because America cannot supply the workforce needed (thank abortion on demand?) in the growing economy. But H1B cannot continued to be abused to suppress wages among skilled Americans or shut them out of the workforce because they "cost too much" compared to their foreign replacements.
No, Trump needs to hold the line and run as a nationalist pro worker candidate. Let them come to us not CHANGE FOR THEM.
Voting in the primaries is crucial so you may not be doing yourself any favors.
It leaves you not helping our efforts to ditch the establishment candidates in the primaries. Register R and screw up their plans. IMO the primaries are more important the general.
That is why we need to end the H-1B visa scam. Believe me there is more than enough domestic IT labor. DON'T BELIEVE THE GLOBALIST BS. H-1B is a wage suppression scheme, that is it in nutshell.
The article, and too many in politics and the media equate independent voters with switch hitters.
I have often posted here about switch hitters. A Chicago minority dominated suburb went back and forth from 55-D to 65-R to 85-D to 87-R. I know these voters. They are not independent. But the are switch hitters.
Many are strategic. Both R and D good government types were outraged at House Minority Leader Bob Michel’s endorsement of Democrat Al-the-Pal in 1992 and voted for Carole Mosley-Braun in the primary. 6 years later the same R and D good government types voted for Republican Peter Fitzgerald in the primary.
In the same 1998 primary, Republican Pro-Lifers voted in the Democrat primary for Proshard and Democrat Pro-choicers and LGBT voted in the Republican Primary for George Ryan.
By voting in the party primary they did not switch parties. They voted strategically.
Here in Atlanta precincts voted overwhelmingly for Democrat Clinton and a couple months later voted overwhelmingly for the Republican for Mayor. The Republican lost for mayor because Republicans in the Republican part of town, her part of town, did not vote at all. They stayed home.
There is a big difference between independent and vote splitters and party switchers. Nobody who splits or switches claims to be “independent” although that is the way the media mindlessly labels them.
Exactly...in western Oregon the SEIU thugs probably make more people register as “I”. I’s have been a growing segment for past 5-10 years.
Bullbleep. When I registered to vote fifty years ago, I did so as an independent...and I have retained that status the for the entire fifty years. And I ain’t no liberal. I don’t register “Republican” because the ‘Pubbies aren’t conservative enough.
I think it depends on whose next. We probably will win in 2020 and lose in 2024. For some reason Americans like to go back and forth on parties. Only once in 40 years did one party get 3 terms and that was 1981-1992.
Correction: They just repeat...
I thought of you guys. Still think the independents are mostly made up of Lefties who back their policies, but don't want it on the record.
US Politics 101. The United States have two political parties: Republicans and Democrats. Choose one. This rule applies to everyone, including so called Independents.
yes, but we’re up against the rather sketchy tactic the Dems’ have adopted, called ballot harvesting. Point in fact: California.
IF 38% of ‘indie’ voters tend to vote Dem, we need to reduce that number by about 15% - not by changing platforms but through outreach centered around tearing apart the dems’ platforms. And I’m not talking about just throwing money at candidates. That’s only half of it. Outreach being in the lap of the RNC, holder of the checkbook. And if we can’t get it together to do that, then we need to perfect the art of ballot harvesting at local strike team level.
When are the white voters going to realize that when the democrats talk about racists they are really talking about them? The white democrat and independent voters have not figured out that the democrats are also talking about them. The trick is that the magic word “racist” is designed to fire up black voters so that they are motivated to go to the polls. While “racist” is designed to make white voters feel guilty so they vote for democrats so that the feel like they are not racist. The democrats are always dividing people while pretending that they want to unite people.
The Democrats deliberately dumb down their voters. Conservatives have to start small groups that will do mailing literature to educate the voters on the basics of the Constitution and the economy. Literature is not that expensive to produce.
yes, but we’re up against the rather sketchy tactic the Dems’ have adopted, called ballot harvesting. Point in fact: California.
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I still don’t know that harvesting is.
2% of the Global Population?
3%? (Might be pushing it)
At the gym yesterday, I was talking to some old codgers. One has had a series of strokes in the past year. Death was the subject. I gave them my 2 cents as did another Brother-in-Christ about putting Faith 100% in Christ and being Saved (Grace thru Faith etc.).
They both engaged in the conversation, and both really feared death - you could tell. But they just thought the faith thing was too silly, even though one made the comment that thinking about death about drove him crazy.
Small...and Narrow....Indeed!
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