in the "sacramento bee." and it's related to partisanship to a certain extent, this is something we've talked about a lot in this broadcast. independent voters now out-number republicans in california, becoming the second largest voting bloc. it's big news in california. is this the wave of the future, josh? are folks becoming so disgusted with both parties that they're going to start shedding their party affiliation? >> they may change their voter registration as we're seeing in california, but political scientists talk about this concept called pseudo independents, which is people who describe themselves as political independents, but virtually always vote for one party or another. maybe you're a pseudo independent. do you call yourself an independent but vote almost all the time for democrats or republicans? we've seen a rise of that. if you talk to independents and they say they lean toward one party, those people are actually more partisan than people who identify as members of a party, but say they're not strongly identified members of that party. so i suspect a lot of these voters in california, they haven't started voting, you know, either way, one party or