For as long as most of us have been alive, we have reflexively divided the electorate into Democrats and Republicans, with the great bulk of the electorate identifying as one or the other. But that is no longer a relevant assessment of politics circa 2026, except in districts leaning far to the left or right. Neither Dems nor members of the GOP decided the 2026 election – or the one in 2024, for that matter. It was self-proclaimed independent voters, the same ones with whom Donald Trump overperformed in 2024, who then flipped violently in the other direction two years later. There are now more independent voters than either Republicans or Democrats in this country. In fact, this was the second straight federal election in which independents, by a narrow margin, outvoted one of the two major parties.
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