Since I'm not a politician I can say it: self-described independent voters tend to have that wonderful combination of arrogance and stupidity, along with a belief that the right politician will just wave his magic wand and the correctly colored pony will appear. They have little understanding of how politics works, and thinks that if someone says they'll just ride into Washington and get things done by bringing people together and making it happen, that this is in fact a stunningly new concept never before communicated by any other politicians. And a pony.
But some of them do vote, so what're you gonna do.
...people misinterpret. I'm not talking about everyone who fails to register for one of the two main parties, or people who sometimes vote for the candidate from the other party. I'm talking about "self-described independents," people who think their independence makes them somehow more objective and more wise than the rest of us and that the fact that they're perfectly positioned on the mythical political center means that they are correct on all things.
