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Record 45% of Americans Identify as Independents as Democrats Regain Edge, Poll Reveals
(www.latintimes.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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The changing composition of who identified as an "independent" is likely responsible for this shift.
Extremist Republicans who once identified as independents are now perfectly at home in the GOP while the milquetoast response if the Democrats to right wing extremism had alienated the further left elements of the Democrats.
"Independent" is more defined by the margins of established parties than the middle.