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toast with water. with water. just way the founding fathers did it. so as we head into the independence day holiday, we begin with independent voters. now the largest voting group at least according to the pew research center, 64% say they re independent because the two major parties care more about special interests than about average americans. and more than half simply don t trust either the dems or republicans. bigger picture, 27% of all american voters say they don t know who they ll cast their ballot for in november or at least they don t have a strong preference. but that s what the people themselves say. pollsters put the numbers of undecideds who will come out to the polls closer to just 10%. and it s this tiny 10% that the candidates, the parties, super pacs, and other outside groups will spend an astounding $2 billion trying to win over this election cycle. will it work? and table, that s where i want to start there. first of all, somebody tell me, are ....
to the sports section or that sort of thing. the style section. they don t start with what s going on with bain capital and this and that and all the littl machinations of the races. the information is coming through the window in the form of a debate or something, right? no, i think there s sort of an important thing to keep in mind here when we start talking about independents. because some of those statistics we say, wow, there s a giant pool of voters out there untethered from the two parties and up for grabs. and we have a graph i hope we can put it up that i think puts this in perspective. the truth of the matter is, most independents, you see it right there, most independents actually functionally in terms of who they vote for in election after election, they are actually members of a political party. functionally, you know, 75%, 3 out of 4 independents basically going to either reliablely vote democratic or republican. there s really only about 10% of the ....