Reply #86: dead wrong. I study Independents for a living. [View All]

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You are confusing Independents with moderates.

People that identify as Independents are quite a bit more ignorant than those who identify as Democratic or Republican. Since Democratic and Republican voters tend to cancel each others votes out, elections are largely decided by massively ignorant Independent voters.

The ignorance of Independent voters has been widely accepted as fact in political science since the groundbreaking work of Campbell, Converse, Stokes and Miller in the 1950s.