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    Independents Help Obama Build Lead Over Romney

    A slight majority (51%) of independents support President Obama in a hypothetical general election matchup with Mitt Romney. Independents have shifted from Romney to Obama since January.

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    Fewer Voters Identify as Republicans

    The balance of party identification in the American electorate now favors the Democratic Party by a decidedly larger margin than in either of the two previous presidential election cycles. In 5,566 interviews with registered voters conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press during the first two months of 2008, 36% […]

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    Independents on Super Tuesday

    Independent voters, who will be voting in many of the more than 20 presidential primaries and caucuses being held tomorrow, hold substantially more favorable views of John McCain (64%) and Barack Obama (62%).

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    Independent Support for Bush

    That’s the percentage of political independents who now say they approve of President Bush’s job performance. Independent voters proved crucial to the Democrats’ victory on Nov. 7.

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    The People, The Press, & Politics – Survey III

    Report Summary This is the third in a series of nationwide personal interview surveys commissioned by Times Mirror to assess the American electorate.  The People, The Press, and Politics series employs a unique voter classification scheme developed by Gallup for Times Mirror in 1987.  The overall purpose of these surveys is to better understand voter […]