I agree no major party candidate stands alone. It may very well be a vote for the party also, but a lot of independents don't look at it that way. I should call them swing voters instead of independents. We do have approximately 80% swing voters who lean toward one party or the other and they'll vote for that party's candidate around 70% of the time.

Then we have the last 20% who can flock to one candidate, party one election and then flock to the other candidate, party the next election. We've seen independents go Democratic 57-39 and four years later go Republican 56-37.

So perhaps we're not seeing these swing voters voting for a party as voting against a party.

Last edited by perotista; 08/20/20 08:19 PM.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.