• Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    Almost 27% identify as independent?

    Ive never seen any voting poll that even comes close to that. Majority in the survey are white, 50+, evangelical/mainline christian midwestern/southerners. That demographic doesn’t help skew to 27% independent to me. The study posted source and methodology though so I don’t know what to say.

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      Anecdotal, but my father, a white 50+ Christian Midwestern man, has made it very clear he’s voting for Trump a third time. He’s Republican in every way except on paper, because he’s registered independent and identifies as such. So there’s that

      Edit, Google turns up this as the first result. In fact, every poll and article I found at a cursory gland supported that. Where are you getting your information that most voters aren’t independent?

      • Gerudo@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        13 minutes ago

        The results in any election? 27% claim independent, yet any major election is vastly R or D.
        My thing is, claiming your I but not voting that way is odd. I think we can say most libertarians that would be part of this independent block end up voting R.

      • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 hours ago

        Yeah, OP is forgetting about all those capital-C Conservatives that won’t register Republican because the Republicans are too moderate and those that left the party specifically so they can disavow this type of rhetoric but still vote straight ®.

        There are a ton of independents that are “inverse RINOs” meaning they are Republicans in everything but name.