Posted by dahsdebater on 4/28/2016 3:37:00 PM (view original):
Also, you made a very substantial error in your analysis tec. 43% of eligible voters identify as independents, not 43% of the vote. Registered independents are substantially less likely to actually vote.
Well, I'm pretty sure that 100% of all registered Democrats and Republicans don't vote either. So the question is, what the the difference in percentage between the number of registered independents who actually vote, and the number of registered D/R who actually vote.
It's probably not as substantial as you make it out to be, particularly when you consider that the percentage of eligible voters who identify as Democrat (30%) or Republican (26%) is noticeably smaller.
In other words, independents are the largest demographic of voters.