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2Pacavelli posted...

32% of the poll respondents consider themselves Independent. A higher percentage than both the Democrat and Republican identifying respondents. That's kind of interesting, is that common or has that ever happened before?

It seems in the past people were more likely to at least identify as one of the parties. Now it seems that the popular sentiment is to be self identifying or check out from either of the major parties in the system today

the democrats lost their party advantage over the past 10 years, which is part of the problem

used to be obama could just rely on turnout to beat someone like mitt romney, even though romney won on persuasion by capturing independents the dems just had more votes. now the democrats don't have the advantage anymore. blame whatever you want -- gamergate, right-wing radicalization, the 2016 DNC shit, russian propaganda, dems being real bad at politics, media vibes, take your pick