Big Majority of Independents Are Not Independent

Pew Research: “Among the public overall, 38% describe themselves as independents, while 31% are Democrats and 26% call themselves Republicans… These shares have changed only modestly in recent years, but the proportion of independents is higher than it was from 2000-2008, when no more than about a third of the public identified as independents.”

“An overwhelming majority of independents (81%) continue to ‘lean’ toward either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.”