More Americans refer to themselves as indenpendents than in the past 75 yrs.

[Kyle Ricky]

It was reported tonight that the more Americans refer to themselves as independents than in the past 75 years. Now I have an issues with this. That issues being that a few of them (I'm not really sure what they numbers are) are not true independents. They are either Liberals, or Republicans masquerading as independents because they are too embarrassed to be referred to as one or the other.

Case in point: A couple of my liberal friends claim to be independent, but they only ever voted Democrat. They hate it when I don't call them independents, but instead liberals  

Me, I am a registered independent (and recently, about six years ago, became a Social Conservative). I voted for Clinton both times (My first election) and I voted for Bush Both times. During the 2008 race, I wrote in another candidate, he was an independent. This time I will be voting for Romney. That is what being an independent is all about. Not disguising yourself because you are too afraid to say what you really are. You vote for whatever candidate you think will be better for the country, no matter if they are a democrat or republican. Now, since I am a Social Conservative, I look at their morals as well.

[JohnnyReb]

 ....Yeah, the officers of the local democratic party are the only democrats left in this county...the rest all of a sudden became independents.....

I'd be embarrassed to to admit I voted for Obama.

[BigTex]

With both parties going more extreme I can see why this is happening though a lot of people who identify themselves as independents in polls dont vote.

[Duke Nukum]

I identified myself as an independent in a poll about a week prior to the recall because it was only a choice between Republican and Democrat.